Long Resistance and Ultimate Conversion. (Burns.)—Wo cannot dis- cover any
particular value or interest in this convert's record of his experiences. It is the old story of the discovery that there are two sides to a question. In this case it seems to have been made by a feeble mind peculiarly susceptible to spiritual terrors. Such deserters, if tho word may be used without offence to perfectly honest persons, are always passing between the two camps, and cannot be supposed to increase the strength of either army. Tho polemical part of the book is exceedingly feeble, and betrays great ignorance of the question which it pretends to discuss. The writer, however, has at least acquired some of the audacity which characterizes more able controversialists of his Church. He complains of the persecutions which English converts to Romanism have to endure. What next ? Such changes, it is true, must always "shake the pillars of domestic peace ;" but there is probably no part of the world, except, perhaps, Protestant Germany and the United States of America, where they can be effected so freely and with so little annoyance as in this country. What would happen to the son of a Roman prince or a Spanish grandee who might declare their conversion to Protestantism ?
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