Twelve Pioneer Missionaries. By George Smith, LL.D. (Nelson and Sons.
7s. Ed.)—We cannot find fault with Dr. G. Smith's selection. All the twelve are representative; all are noble figures, worthy of being included in a roll of honour. The list begins with Raymond Lulli, a strange, almost bizarre, combina- tion of various gifts and qualities. Most of those who know his name will remember him as an alchemist; but his great work was the work of missions, and this he was one of the first to recognise was to be done by persuasion, and not by force: William Carey, John Vanderkemp, the first of that most effec- tive company, medical missionaries, Bishop Caldwell, Ion G. N. Keith-Falconer, are among the twelve. One misses, perhaps, the names of Henry Martyn and Captain Gardner, of the Pata- gonian Mission, an effort that ultimately justified itself against an almost universal combination of adverse opinion. It is strange to read that Danjibhai Nauroji, the first Parsee convert (who is
still alive), had to justify his conduct in becoming a convert before a Court of Law.
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