REVIEW.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1646, 13 October 1887, Page 3

REVIEW.

Mr F. C. Pettit, book agent, has left at our office a book entitled " Platform Echoes/' by J. B. Gough. Mr J. B. G-ough'a name is so well known as one of the greatest temperance orators of the century that the book needs few words to recommend it. The fact that it contains the essence of his" temperance speeches, as well as many of his most amusing anecdotes, is sufficient guarantee that it is well worth reading. It also contains a biographic sketch of the author, written by the Eev. Lyman Abbott, which is not the least entertaining part of the book. Taken altogether the book is more interesting to read than any novel, while the moral influence which it must exercise in%ay family which is fortunate enough in possessing it cannot be estimated. It is also splendidly printed, beautifully illustrated with pictures that give terribly realistic and forcible ideas of the evils of intemperance, and it is bound in a manner that renders it an ornament in any library. The Rev. A. M. Collins, D.D., of the Christian Church, Cameron, in America, says:— "Language is inadequate to express the real heart good I have derived from its perusal. It .touched the fountm'n of my soul as no other booV ever did. While reading it my eyes were often blinded by faat-falling tears. Its lessons went to my heart. " Allow me to gay you are doing a great work for humanity in publishing and in sending abroad over the land this invaluable book. Push it with all your might. You are but carrying forward the grand work of that gifted man of God. You will lighten many heart-burdens, dry many tear-suffused eyes, and be the means of saving many precious souls from the awful curse of drink. ••I have an only son, fifteen years old, to whom 1 have preeouted this book, and I shall feel sure that with this as an amulet of safety he can never be betrayed into the downward way of drunkenness. It is my heartfelt wish that this book may go into every family in the United Slates. Yea, more—into the families of all EDglish-?pe»king people, and I would it might be translated into French and German."