HE footpaths of any country may be expected to yield some glimpses, both of the land and the people, not obtainable along the dusty and well-beaten highway. It is sincerely hoped that this may prove equally true of these Bye-paths in Baptist History. That they occasionally cross the main roads, and now' and then run parallel with them, is no more than other Bye-paths have done before them but care has been taken throughout to preserve, as much as pos sible, their distinctive character.