A Preacher's Life. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.
6s.)—Dr. Parker speaks kindly of those whom he has occasion to mention, whether they were friends or opponents, and we have no wish to say anything but what is kind of him. These pages, indeed, are a not ineffective apologia pro vita. He has expressed admiration for some people whom we could not con- sider admirable; but it is not difficult to see, as we read, how he came to do so, and we think the better of him for seeing it- gor has he failed on occasion to stand up for those who were wronged, for T. T. Lynch, for instance, whose piety and genius received from the greater part of his co-religionists the very hardest treatment. Quite at the other pole of things may be placed his very handsome recognition of the high qualities of G. J. Holyoake. No one who reads this autobiography can fail to be interested in it, and every one will rise from it, we believe, with a higher opinion of the writer. On one point we must express our emphatic dissent from Dr. Parker. The writer of this notice has been an anonymous critic for many years, and his experience has deepened his conviction that, on the whole, anonymity works both for liberty and truth.
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