"Have seldom seen a better and clearer text-book."—British Weekly.

"For its own purpose there is no book that can for a moment compete with it."—Expository Times.

"It supplies excellently terse and clear introductions to the books of the New Testament."—Guardian.

"It contains the pith of libraries, and presents its massive learning in a lucid and readable style."—Evangelical Magazine.

"Dr. Cowan has chosen his materials judiciously, and set them forth lucidly and attractively."—Glasgow Herald.

"This comprehensive, luminous, and interesting picture of the ecclesiastical past and present of Scotland."—Literary World.

"As long as the Church of Scotland can produce manuals of this calibre it need not fear comparison with any community in Christendom."—Record.

"Nowhere is it possible to obtain in anything like the same compass so clear and authoritative an array of historical facts and ecclesiastical statistics, and the volume has the additional advantage of being bright and readable."—Speaker.

"If any young novelist wishes to tell again the ever-romantic story of the struggles of a poor Scottish student, described so pathetically by George MacDonald and by still more popular successors, he will find some valuable material in a little book issued in the Guild Library this week entitled 'A Faithful Churchman.'"—Aberdeen Free Press.

"The book can be recommended to young Churchmen of all denominations, and will make them acquainted not only with a fine and characteristic type of Scotsman, but also with events and movements which are passing out of mind, but which have done much to mould the present."—Glasgow Herald.

"A fresh and vigorous, as well as scholarly and luminous, survey of the intellectual conditions which prevailed under Greek culture, Roman authority, and Jewish exclusiveness."—Speaker.

"It is at once philosophical, critical, and historical, illustrating with admirable force the idea that the world was in various ways prepared for the advent of Christ."—Baptist Magazine.

"One of the few modern books that will bear reading many times."—Christian World.

"The most attractive short manual of missions generally that has yet been published."—Church Missionary Intelligence.

"We may add that it is enriched by 240 illustrations, mostly portraits, contains 8 maps, and gives a bibliography of references."—The New Age.

"Far and away the ablest sketch of modern foreign missions, packed into the very smallest compass."—Sword and Trowel.

"Readable and well-digested it forms a valuable addition to the popular series of books in which it appears."—Scotsman.

"The style of the book is altogether charming, and the introduction is as lucid and graceful as it is sympathetic, catholic, and penetrating."—Aberdeen Free Press.

"Deserves to be widely read, and all the more because it is written not only with critical discernment but with catholic sympathy."—Speaker.

"We have not come across one word of bias or prejudice."—Guardian.

"It will help readers of the Bible much as a dictionary of classical antiquities helps a reader of Latin and Greek."—Scotsman.

"It is one of the most interesting and instructive little volumes on the subject we have seen."—Liverpool Mercury.

"To the teacher who wishes to give local colour and piquancy to his Bible-class lessons, or to the student who desires to understand his Bible more thoroughly, this excellent little handbook will be found of very great service."—Dundee Advertiser.

"A well-thought-out treatise on a subject of the highest importance. This is the best kind of service which a clear thinker who regards the subject without what a hostile disputant might call professional bias, can render to the cause of revealed religion."—Spectator.

"An excellent manual of instruction."—Religious Review of Reviews.

"Written in an unusually bright lively manner."—Manchester Guardian.

"This is an excellent little volume, and from its conciseness, clearness, and comprehensiveness is a great improvement on the well-known 'Pearson' of an earlier generation."—Aberdeen Journal.

"This book is like a fine sermon following a beautiful text."—Expository Times.

"When we say that it is worthy of its position in such a series we know of no higher praise we can give."—Methodist N. C. Magazine.

CHURCH, MINISTRY, AND SACRAMENTS.
By Rev. Norman MacLeod, D.D., Inverness.
10th Thousand.

"The subject is handled with great good sense and in a liberal spirit."—Critical Review.

"The book may be safely recommended as a safe guide along a thorny but important path of study."—Scotsman.

"A model of what such a text-book should be."—Glasgow Herald.