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(From the London Quarterly.)
LIFE AND TIMES OF CAItEY, IIARSIIIIAN,
and Ward.*
Great honor is designed for the me¬
mory of the fathers of the Serampore
Mission. No Englishman of the present
generation will forget, and the history
of England will convey to those of
future times, how the heart of the
nntioh, when sore with repeated tidings
of disaster in India, was first relieved,
and then filled with exultation, by gleam
after gleam of victory from the sword
of a hero leading a slender band ; and
how good men told with delight, that
Havelock was a son-in-law of Dr. Marsh-
man, the missionary.
The same distinguished man left a
son, who was long recognized ns the un¬
rivaled leader of the Indian press, and
who, in the columns of the Friend of
“ Life and Times of Carey, Marshman,
and Ward, Embracing the History of the
Serampore Mission. By Joiin Clauk AIaiisii-
man. In Two Volumes. Longmans. 1859.
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India, has exerted no inconsiderable in¬
fluence, on its history. Retired now to
England, lie lias employed his leisure
in telling the wonderful tale of Carey,
Ward, and his own father, in a work
which no missionary, or statesman, or
student of Indian affairs, can safely dis¬
pense with or honestly ignore. It is
the moral history of North-India, and
of the Indian Government, illustrated
by and interwoven with a strange tale
of enterprise, almost incredible mental
prodigies, and eminent Christian graces.
It is well told. The author has the ad¬
vantage of perfect familiarity with the
scenes and persons to which his narra¬
tive related. Yet sufficient time has
elapsed to make the men already pub¬
lic personages. The work has the double
advantage of history and biography —
the elevation and gravity of the one,
with the liveliness and personal interest
of the other. Mr. Marshnnin is a
practiced writer, holds his pen easily,
never tries to be eloquent, but often is
so; and now and then seasons with a
gentle grain of salt. You feel at once
that your author is outspoken and fair,
lie does not hesitate to set forth the
faults of his heroes, or let it be seen
that missionaries are subject to infir¬
mities like other men. He is an honest
Baptist, a frank dissenter, nnd perhaps
a little hard on Bishops; not so much
on the genus as a whole, as on that
anomalous species of it, the Colonial
prelate, who, being a Bishop, is always
wondering why he is. not a baron. But
