10 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 25

Three Friends of God. By Frances Bevan. (Nisbet and Co.)—

Miss Bevan has done a good work in giving these "records from the lives" of three of the "Brethren." The three are Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, who has, according to a probable account, the honour of having opened Tauler's eyes to the light, and Henry Suso. Miss Bevan gives us much of these men's own words, and deserves our gratitude thereby. But it would, we cannot but think, have been better if she had been more restrained in her own language. It cannot profit any one, for instance, when we are told of Henry Sum's mother that "she went to mass, but her heart was with the Lord himself, and she remembered his death each time with loving tears, little understanding how contrary to his word was the service in which she was taking part."