of his work. But this gives no hint of the book's peculiar charm. Those
who love birds and stretches of green meadow, glimpses of lordly and
high hills, the soil and the sincere life lived on it, will find here a
genuine delight.

Above all is the interest in the preachers themselves. "There were
giants in those days, and for the most part our ministers were good and
noble men. Of their goodness and sincerity these annals bear witness!"

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Christine

By ALICE CHOLMONDELEY

_Cloth, 12mo., $1.25_

"A book which is true in essentials--so real that one is tempted to
doubt whether it is fiction at all--doubly welcome and doubly
important.... It would be difficult indeed to find a book in which the
state of mind of the German people is pictured so cleverly, with so much
understanding and convincing detail.... Intelligent, generous,
sweet-natured, broadminded, quick to see and to appreciate all that is
beautiful either in nature or in art, rejoicing humbly over her own
great gift, endowed with a keen sense of humour, Christine's is a