Modern Heroes of the Mission Field. By the Right Rev.
W. Pakenham Walsh, Bishop of Ossory. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We confess that on seeing the names of Henry Martyn, of Judson, of Williams, Carey, Morison, and Bishop Patteson, besides other well- known missionaries, the thought arose that all had been said about them that could be said, heroes in the best sense though they un- doubtedly were. But so great were the difficulties with which they had to contend—so great were their victories—so soon are such deeds forgotten, that even their contemporaries may thank the Bishop for this book. It reads like a collection of short romances, and yet it is the soberest truth, put into terse and simple narrative, and we cannot but hope that some of the younger generation may catch from its pages a little of the heroic spirit, and, without attempting to copy, may yet,— " Each some honoured father Emulate in new career."
There are one or two names, not so widely known, yet equally de- serving of renown, which it was well to include in this record of splendid deeds,—we refer to those John Hunt, of Fiji, and William Johnson, of West Africa. The first went to Fiji when cannibalism was almost universally practised, and the last took the charge of, and turned into a truly civilised community, the first freed slaves at Sierra Leone.
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