The Unknown God. By B. L. Putnam Weale. (Macmillan and
Co. 6e.)—Mr. Putnam Weale describes a Mission in China, and does not surprise us by giving it a very unlovely aspect. The head of the Mission has good• qualities, but is fatally irresolute; a vicious subordinate is scheming to supplant him ; the scanty company of converts has neither enthusiasm nor courage. Then there comes. a time of severe trial, an attack by a frantically hostile mob. All this is described with great force by one who impresses the reader by his manifest knowledge of the country. But is the picture true ? Possibly so in this or that individual instance, but, as a whole, it is contradicted by a great multitude of witnesses. We venture to say that in the whole history of Missions there is nothing that surpasses the successes that Iwo been achieved of late years in China; nowhere have re iesionaries been more devoted, nowhere converts more stanch.
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