Two hours ago, I received from the publisher, J. Alfred Sharp, The Epworth Press, London, a copy of a book with the following title-page "Cornaby of Hanyang. A Great-souled Missionary.
Appreciation by Coulson Ker-nathan, with Biographical Chapters by Mrs. W. A. Cornaby, B.a. Introduction by the Rev. W. T. A. Barber, M.A., D.D. and Personal Tributes by the Rev. Marshall Hartley and Others."
I at once dropped into a chair and with only such involuntary interruptions as are the lot of most missionaries, I stayed' not until I had read through from cover. If I say that it is a book which would have delighted Cor-navy himself, I am saying a great deal more than I should appear to be, to those who did not know Cornaby. He was a law to himself in the matter of being delighted, as the little book shows he was in many other matters. Along certain lines, few were more easy to please; along others, few less easy. He certainly would not have been pleased had there been anything fulsome, any attempt to Jay on the praise "with a trowel." It needed dainty handicraft to please his dainty soul—and this book is dainty handicraft.
The book makes it quite clear why Coulson Kernahan should have written it. It would be a great'honour to many men to have their biographies handled by Mr. Kernahan. But I fancy Mr. Ker-nathan would say that it was a much greater honour for him to write about W. A. Cornaby, than for Cornaby to be written about by Kernahan, The two men were very close friends, and although I have never had the privilege of meeting Mr. Kernahan, that fact tells me much more about him than even hig tell-tale books. Only the very elect were able to enter that circle—a statement which not even modified! by the fact that Mr. Cornaby had an unusually large circle of such friends It was pleasant to find that the "personal tributes" from "others" were confined-to one from his beloved and most lovable chairman, the Rev. J. K. Hill, and one from the Editor of the North-China Daily News," not written for this book and, I was almost going to say, not for the readers
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.