Living Sermons. By Mrs. Reaney. (Nisbet.)—Obviously Mrs. Reaney has taken
advantage of the present season, at which folks of all ages, but especially the young, are expected to take an abundant supply of solid advice as well as other solids not generally supposed to be so good for them. She here gives, under the title of Living Sermons, a number of stories of how Christian truth can be made an active force in the conduct of life. In some of them, as in " Her Tipsy Tea-party," there is not only religious earnestness but genial humour ; all of them, too, are readable, and, Mrs. Romney assures us, absolutely true to life. She thinks her book specially suited for reading aloud at sewing classes or mothers' meetings, but it would make a very suitable gift-book for a poor boy or girl in danger of what, in such a case, is too truly " temptation."
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