• Life of George Clark Hutton, D.D. By Alexander Ogilvie,
D.D. (A. Gardner, Paisley. 3s. 6d.)—Any one who may want to read the story of the events which had for a result the union of the Free and the United Presbyterian Churches may find it in this volume. 'They were a large part of Dr. Hutton's life. He was a fervent -' Liberation" champion. That is a question which we need not -argue here. There are two sides to it, a fact which, we take it, Dr. Hutton never saw. But the world cannot get on without one- -sided men. Still, we cannot forget that of the four hundred and seventy men who followed Dr. Chalmers on that memorable day in May, 1843, there was not one who did not hold by the principle of • 'Establishment. In the face of that the talk about the injustice -of the Lords' decision in favour of their direct successors is out of -place. This it the story of a very strenuous and useful life, which we can appreciate without accepting the principles which it consistently set forth.
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