10 DECEMBER 1887, Page 9

The Ballad of the Chorister-Boy. By the Bishop of Bedford.

With Illustrations by H. I. A. Mills. (Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co.)— The pictures are &cod, but we do not quite understand the purpose of the Bishop's ballad. Does it mean that the three holy men were wrong in wishing that their services should be adorned by anything beyond the devotion which their voices expreesed