2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 13

The Viking Path. By S. J. Haldane Burger. (Blackwood and

Sons.)—This "Tale of the White Christ" belongs to the time when the new faith is struggling to drive out the old. The Norse warriors find it especially hard to accept the doctrine of peace, of forgiveness of injuries, of victory by patience and enduring of evil. This gives occasion to some finely dramatic scenes. There is no little vigour in the story, though the tone is pitched a little too high. We are reminded, now and then, of Ossian,—Macpherson's Ossian, we mean.