 The titles of these sufficiently indicated the nature of his present studies, while their excellence gave promise of what might yet be accomplished.The chief of them were an "Account of the concluding part of the Life and the Death of that illustrious man, John Knox, the most faithful Restorer of the Church of Scotland", being a translation from the work of Principal Smeton; a "Memoir of Mr. John Murray", minister of Leith and Dunfermline, in the beginning of the 17th century; a "Sketch of the Progress of the Reformation in Spain, with an account of the Spanish Protestant Martyrs; The Suppression of the Reformation in Spain"; the "Life of Dr. Andrew Rivet", the French Protestant minister; the "Life of Patrick Hamilton"; the "Life of Francis Lambert, of Avignon"; and the "Life of Alexander Henderson".The journal in which they appeared was of limited circulation, and its literary merits were little appreciated, so that these admirable articles were scarcely known beyond the small circle of subscribers to the "Christian Magazine", most of whom were Seceders.