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The Women of Christendom. By the author of the "

Selsonberg-Cotta Family." 1 vol. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)— This book aims at showing the women of India to what height Christianity has raised the character of women in Europe. Short lives of the most pious and self-sacrificing women of medixval and modern times are given. Among them, those of Monica, Joan of Arc, Madame Elizabeth, and Mrs. Fry are conspicuous. The wide range of sympathy and the absence of sectarianism shown in this compilation makes t a great improvement on ordinary works of its class. The author of the Schonberg-Gotta Family" has performed her task in the manner which long ago secured her n high reputation in the department of religious biography.