LAURENCE W. SCOTT would only say, of himself, that he is a Virginia born, Kentucky educated, Missouri developed, Texan, and was "water-bound awhile in Arkansas;" and, of the preachers, that there are, in the living pulpit of the Lone Star State, many other "able ministers of the New Testament;" some of whom he hopes to present in a future volume, and all of whom he hopes to meet in "the world to come."