7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 10

William Tyndale. By G. Barnett Smith. (Partridge and Co.) —This

is a story that may be told again and again and never fail to gain readers. William Tyndale was a singularly blameless character. Apart from his great work as a translator, there was an integrity and purity about him which singles him out, so to speak, among the many doubtful personalities of the Reformation epoch. And the baseness and treachery by which his enemies

accomplished his destruction help to interest us in him. The volume is well illustrated with portraits, and pictures of houses and places. We wish that publishers would keep wholly to these, and do away with fancy pictures which do not illustrate in the real sense of the word.