m in making the offer showing the depth of his bitterness on the
subject,--that a balance should be struck between the losses of the
Loyalists and those of the Colonists in the conflagration of their
sea-ports and the outrages on the property of individual patriots.

The views and feelings of Franklin have been essentially those which
have since prevailed popularly among us regarding the old Tories. Of
course, when hard-pressed, he was willing to recognize a difference in
the motives which prompted individuals and in the degrees of their
turpitude. Mr. Sabine gives us in his introductory essay a most
admirable analysis of the whole subject-matter, with an accurate and
instructive array of all the facts bearing upon it. No man has given
more thorough or patient inquiry to it, or has had better opportunities
for gathering materials of prime authority and perfect authenticity for
the treatment of it. In the biographical sketches which crowd his
volumes will be found matter of varied and profound interest,
alternately engaging the tender sympathy and firing the indignation of
the reader. One can hardly fail of bethinking himself that the moral and
judicial reflections which come from perusing this work will by and by,
under some slight modifications, attach to the review of the characters
and course of some men who are in antagonism to their country's cause in
these days.

_Broken Lights: An Inquiry into the Present Condition and
Future Prospects of Religious Faith._ By FRANCES POWER
COBBE. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co.

Among the countless errors of faith which have misled mankind, there is
none more dangerous, or more common, than that of confounding the forms
of religion with religion itself. Too often, alike to believer and
unbeliever, this has proved the one fatal mistake. Many an honest and
earnest soul, feeling the deep needs of a spiritual life, but unable to
separate those things which the heart would accept from those against
which the reason revolts, has rejected all together, and turned away
sorrowful, if not scoffing. On the other hand, the state of that man,
who, because his mind has settled down upon certain externals of
religion, deems that he has secured its essentials also, is worse than
that of the skeptic. The freezing traveller, who is driven by the rocks
(of hard doctrine) and the thorns (of doubt) to keep his limbs in
motion, stands a far better chance of finding his way out of the
wi