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._