SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notize rich nooks of the week as hone not bees reserred for review in other forinz.]
Memories of the Life of General F. T. Haig. By his Wife, (Marshall Brothers. Is. 6d.)—Felix Thackeray Haig was Irish by birth, went to Addiscombe, and passed thence into the corps of Engineers. His first employment in India was in the irrigation works on the Godavery River. Here also began his active interest in the missionary cause, an interest which did not fail to bring about some substantial results. But it was Arabia—the same region, it may be remembered, that attracted Bishop Valpy French in his old age—that commanded his most active sym- pathies. And, indeed, any preacher of Christianity who should win a great success in Arabia, the stronghold, as it is, of Islam, would be a veritable Apostle, worthy to be ranked with Ulfilas and Boniface,—we are not quite sure whether the comparison would have been to General Haig's liking. However that may be, he was a man of rare energy and devotion, and this Life of him is well worth reading.
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