The Fifty Years’ Struggle of the Scottish Covenanters, 1638-88. Third
Edition, fcap., cloth, 5s.
“The volume before us is by a Mr. Dodds, with whose name we were not
previously acquainted. His Lectures on the Covenanters were
addressed to popular audiences, and they are calculated to be
exceedingly popular.... They have merits of their own; they are in
passages very eloquent; they are full of graphic touches; they
appeal with no small success to our sympathies; and, though we
cannot endorse the leading idea of the book, we must do it all
honour as an advance upon previous ideas on the same
subject.”—_Times._
“This is an excellent little book, written in a large-hearted,
earnest, pious, and thoroughly manly spirit.... The style is
forcible, graphic, and robust; now and then perhaps a little stiff,
sometimes pseudo-rhetorical, but, in general, well suited to the
subject.... These men, whatever be the reader’s prepossessions, are
really worth reading about. There was manhood in them.”—_Spectator._