The Reformation. By George P. Fisher, D.D. (Hodder and Stough-
ton.)—Dr. Fisher is Professor of Exlesiastical History in Yale College, and tho volume with which ho now pnisenti us grew, he tolls us, out of a course of lectures given by him at the Lowell Institute, in Boston. Tho work is conceived in a truly philosophical spirit. Dr. Fisher is a Protestant, but ho Allows impartiality and candour, which entitle him to be classed—nor could any praise be higher—with Leopold Rinke himself. "It has not entorad into my thoughts," he says in his preface, "to inculcate the Creed of Protestantism, or to propagate any typo of Christian doctrine, much less to kindle animosity against the Church of Rome. Very serious as the points of difference are which separate the body of Protestants from the body of Roman Catholics, the points in which they agree outweigh in importance the points in which they differ." Another noticeable feature in the book is the skill with which the ecclesiastical is illustrated by the secular history of the period. Dr. Fisher's book is not exhaustive of its subject, for such a single volume could not be, but it is a very able sketch.
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