Self-Surrender. By Mary Pryor Hack. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —This is
a companion volume to " Consecrated Women." It sketches in a strongly Evangelical spirit the lives of eleven women who have displayed patience in suffering, courage under persecution, zeal in good works, or love of holiness. First comes the terrible story of Anne Askew, next a short account of Isabel Brown, wife of John Brown the Covenanter, shot in her presence by Claverhouse, after his declaration that " being a Protestant Presbyterian, who, along with all ranks in the nation bad sworn and covenanted to God that no Papist should bear rule over these lands, he neither could nor would pray " for King James, unless "he repented and turned from his wicked way." The life of Helen Herschell is a story of active and long-continued work, while the few years of Anne and Emma Maurice are full of almost unceasing pain. The last biography in the volume is that of Agnes Jones, another Sister Dora, who worked and died in the Liverpool Workhouse Hospital.
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