The Day, the Book, and the Teacher. A Centenary Memorial.
By Edwin Paxton Hood. (Sunday-School Union.)—The "centenary" of which this is a memorial is the centenary of Sunday-schools. Mr. Hood makes a reasonably good little book out of his subject, and is not to be seriously blamed if in doing this be sometimes goes a little wide of it. It is a picturesque way of fixing a date (1780), to say that " Arthur Wellesley was studying in a private school at Brighton," and "Napoleon Bonaparte was a lad in the Military School of Paris ;" but it is a way that becomes somewhat tiresome, when the paraphrase extends over three or four pages. In chapter ii. we get to the centre of the subject, in a pleasant sketch of Robert Raikes, of Gloucester. Chapter iv., on "Phantom Schemes of Education," with a diatribe on Jean Jacques Rousseau, takes us somewhat afield. Mr. Hood gives their due to other unknown workers for the cause, as to Mrs. Trimmer, Henry Richy, and Thomas Cmnfield. We hope that in another edition we shall not find him saying that the band of Sunday- school teachers form a "Prceterice Cohortis," and that they are the bearers of the " lab'arum" of our faith.
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