.The Life of Hebich. By Two of his Fellow-labourers. Translated
from the German by Colonel J. G. Halliday. (Seeloys).—Here is the marvel of what reads like a perfectly candid biography. Samuel Hebich laboured for many years as a missionary in Southern India. Never was a man more energetic and courageous, and he had his measure of success. That he was eccentric and obstinate, imperious to others and unable to obey, is a fact that comes out plainly enough. A significant caution was addressed to the authori.ies when, after his final return from India, he went preaching through the country :—" The dear old man can do his best of work in arousing any place in a fortnight ; after that he Should move on to BOMB other place, before he and the clergy all fall by the ears." But he was a noble man, for all that. His life is worth reading, not the least notable part being the sketch of his father, an old Lutheran of the pre-Evangelical type, who after confirmation gave his son a pipe, with the words—his sole spiritual monition—‘. Now you are a man," and who died with a Horace on his bed.
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