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The Witnesses in Sackcloth. By a Descendant of a Refugee. - The 'Witnesses in Sackcloth' is a trenchant and earnest account of the attack made on the Reformed churches of France in the seventeenth century, - with a bibliographical and literary appendix, including notices of the subsequent history of the French Protestants. The writer is well versed in his subject. He writes with zeal, and even passion, - but not offensively. Real earnestness breathes in every line - kindles the narrative - makes it picturesque, and sometimes eloquent. The evil that would otherwise spring from the author's bias in favour of a particular party to the events described, is in great measure guarded against by his extreme frankness. No one will mistake him for an impartial historian.

Our Library Table The Evangelist of the Desert: a Life of Claude Brousson, from Original and Authentic Records. By H.S.Baynes. - The Claude Brousson, whose story is here told was an advocate of the provincial Parliament of Toulouse, in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth; subsequently he became a preacher of the Reformed Church of France; and ultimately a martyr to the doctrines which he had embraced. The biography is carefully and ably executed. Mr Baynes - whose private collections are pretty large - has had access to manuscript and other documents of great rarity for the purposes of his work; and he has wriiten the life of Brousson with that earnestness of feeling which we had the occasion to commend when speaking of his former book, The Witnesses in Sackcloth. The two volumes, sequent in subject as they are in appearance, constitute a trustworthy and popular guide for the English reader to the secret annals of the Protestant Church in France: - one of the most romantic, and at the same time most neglected, episodes in European history.

Our Library Table A Biblical Exercise on the True Site of Calvary. By Henry S Baynes. (Stevenson) - The traditional site of the Crucifixion, argues Mr Baynes, has been determined without sufficient reference to the only existing authorities. He holds a theory which appears to carry with it the weight of Dr Robinson's opinion, and that of several other distinguished travellers; and it is evident that his own examination of the local topography has been close and careful. The little tract now published contains more than is promised by its title. It is a practical and suggestive discussion of the several points to be kept in view, and sets forth the main question at least lucidly and calmly.