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The Pupils of St. John the Divine. By the Author of The Heir of .12edclyffe. (Macmillan.)—This is the first work in a new series issued by Messrs. Macmillan under the name of " The Sunday Library." Their object is to provide families with books for Sunday reading which shall not be mere abstract works of meditation, but shall " exorcise a living power by bringing us into direct contact with all that is true and noble in human nature and human life." Miss Yonge could not have chosen s subject more consonant with this plan than the life of St. John, and of those he trained up for the service of his master. The picturesque opening of the book, and the descriptions of life and scenery, will rivet the attention of many to whom Sunday books have hitherto been types of weariness. It is possible that some of these readers may think the extracts from the Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp too long, and in this judgment we partly concur. But it only goes to a small portion, com- paratively speaking, of the book, and to the rest there is no such objec- tion to be made.
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