3 JUNE 1865, Page 21

Luther's Letters to Women. Translated by Mrs. Malcolm. (Chapman and

Hall.)—Ladies seem to have a particular pleasure in reading and

writing books which are in some way addre ssed to them as a sex, and therefore this book will probably be acceptable. Nothing, however, was further from Luther's thoughts than the modern system of regarding woman as an entity whose rights and duties could be considered sepa- rately from those of man. His view of life was essentially social. For the letters themselves, they will scarcely give a reader who knows no more of Luther than he learns from them at all an adequate idea of the man. They are mostly rather trivial in character.