Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-01
A Tale of the Husuenots.

A little volume with the title stArneline Du
 Bourg-A Tale of the Huguenots" has just
 been published in the ''Lovell's Library, series. In an approving review of the book the Christian World says: Fiction may
 often be profitably impressed into the service
 of history, in order to impart animation and
 viVidness to what would otherwise be tame and lifeless recital of facts. In the present instance, the French author is a historical
 student of eminence, the librarian of the
 famous Magazine Library, if we mistake not, to whom we are indebted for works
 Of great importance on the Sources of French History" and upon the great siege
 of Paris by Henry ". toward the close of the sixteenth century. To translate the
 writings of such an author competently, indeed, to render any extended French book into good, idiomatic English, is no trifinR task. It is not too much to say that the Misses Jane and Harriet Duer, daughters of Judge Duer-a Jurist of whom New York is justly proud-have done this work unusu- ally well, and have given us a version that is at once faithful and readable As to the book itself, it is 8 story founded upon the fortunes of Professionalism in the time of the great reformation. The reign of the second Henry was the period of systematic attempts by bloody legislation to crush out the purer faith in France while yet in its infancy. The hatred of the priesthood of the Church of Rome stopped at no impediment, but urged on the monarch ever to more sanguinarY edicts. The people, instigated by it's spiritu- al guides, and led to believe that the hated 'tLutherans" were the most vicious and de- prayed of men, shrank from no deed of v1o- lence. The arrest of Anne du Bours, g member of the Psrisian Parliament, and confessedly one of the purest and ablest of judges, falls within the last month of this. reign. His trial and execution belong to the next reign, the first of three reiPns of un- pRralleled misery and disgrace for France; cursed by being compelled to obey, as it's successive kings, three despicable boys, worthy progeny of Catharine de Medic1. The death of Du Bourg competent writers have regarded as the origin and proximate cause of disastrous period of civil war, bloodshed and massacre, covering more than a third of a century. The story before us centers in a daughter of the great martyr of 1859, but it by no means confines itself to her personal vieissitudes. As in panorama, we behold the intrigues of the Inquisition which the desperation of Rome strove to es- tablish in France after the model of that 'sHoly Office" which has done such good service to Che papacy in Spain. We are per. mitted glimpse into the secret conVenticles of those who were soon to be called Hugue nots, and we witness one of those wild out bursts of fanaticism by means of which the popular feeling against the Huguenots sought, in robbery and murder, to vindicate its claim to be both Christian and religious. We have not space, however, to speak of the contents in detail. It is "a book that will be read with great interest and profit, and we wish for it a large circulation. Protestants in the nine teenth century need to be reminded of the suferings endured by their ancestors in the great struggle of the ages to secure the recog- milton of the right to worship God according to the dictates of the individual conscienee