equalled
for sound argument and rhetorical effect. It would be superfluous to
make any selections or quotations from the rev. gentleman's speeches on
this subject; his views are already well known to all who take an
interest in the cause for which he pleads, and before that cause has
reached its final consummation it is more than likely that he will again
be at Ephesus, fighting on its behalf.

The soundness of his judgment and the eminently dispassionate views
which he is able to take of all questions laid before him are so fully
recognised by his brethren in the Free Church that Dr. Buchanan is
consulted on nearly every matter that relates to the welfare of that
body. He can discriminate so nicely and so fairly on the merits of any
one question submitted for his adjudication--his judicial faculty is so
highly developed, that some of those who know him best have hazarded the
prediction that, had he been trained for the bar instead of for the
pulpit, he would by this time have held the position of Lord President
of the Court of Session. Dr. Buchanan is a man of such varied gifts and
accomplishments that he would have shone in any sphere, and in the
interests of Christianity it is a source of congratulation rather than
otherwise that he chose the pulpit for his profession. In this
connection we may mention the fact that Dr. Buchanan has spoken at many
public meetings of a moral, social, and political, as well as of an
ecclesiastical character. One of his last appearances on the City Hall
platform was on the occasion of a meeting held last year to take
measures for providing additional church accommodation in Glasgow--a
desideratum for which he has often and eloquently pleaded.

As an author, Dr. Buchanan's name will be handed down to posterity--at
least so far as his own church is concerned. His "Ten Year's Conflict"
is the only complete and authoritative record of the causes and effects
of the Disruption that has yet been published. He has also published an
able and scholarly work on the "Ecclesiastes;" while his leisure hours
on a holiday tour in the Mediterranean have been turned to advantage by
his publication of an interesting volume entitled "Clerical Furlough."

MR. ROBERT NAPIER.

In that magnificent work, "London: a Pilgrimage," for which we are
indebted to the joint labours of Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold,
allusion is made to the decadence of the shipbuilding trade on the
Thames, and the rapi