Leaders Upward and Nunn], edited by H. C. Ewart (1V.
Isbister), is a collection of short biographical sketches, some of which have already appeared in one or other of the magazines published by Messrs. Ishister. There are eleven such in the volume, preceded by a brief introduction from the pen of the editor. The editor also con.
tributes liven of F. D. Maurice (far too brief as to the latter portion of his career) and Dr. Arnold. Dr. Alexander H. Sapp writes on Charles Kingsley, Dr. Walter C. Smith on Norman Macleod, and Dr. Donald Macleod on Principal Tulloob. The other lives are those of Dean Stanley, Archbishop Tait, Bishop Fraser, Edward Irving, Thomas Guthrie, and John Curwen, the inventor of the "Tonic Sol-Fa" musical notation. All these biographies seem to have been entrusted to competent hands.—With this may be mentioned Short Biographies for the People (Religions Tract Society), the fourth volume of a series of which we have already spoken with praise. Chalmers, Livingstone, the reformers Valdie and A'Lasco, John Fox, and Michael Faraday are among the eminent persona whose lives are here sketched.
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