Homes and Haunts of Luther. By John Stoughton, D.D. (Religious
Tract Society.)—In this extremely elegant and tasteful volume, Dr. Stoughton has gathered together, from many and widely different sources, all the main facts and incidents in the life of the great Reformer, and spun them together into an agreeable narrative of his own. Dr. Stoughton's name will be a guarantee for the general accuracy and conscientiousness of the historical part of it; he also shows sufficient courage in rejecting some of the legends which have become interwoven with some previous biographies, and in cautioning his readers against others for which he has failed to find duo authority. We are glad also to note an absence of preaching, and even, as much as may be in such a subject, of controversy. The book is amply illustrated, almost too amply. We could have dispensed with some of the plates; such subjects as "Lather preaching to the Peasants," for instance, are best left to the " mind's eye "in an historical book. On the other hand, we cannot praise too highly some others, aarticularly the views of and in the old German towns of Leipzig, Worms, Wittenberg, Coburg, &c. These are very charming, though we fancy some of them have done service elsewhere. This is not a book to be forgotten at Christmas-time.
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