Other Days. By J. W. Leigh. (T. Fisher Unwin. 188.
net.) -The late Dean of Hereford in these pleasant reminiscences recalls Cambridge in the late 'fifties, the Near East a little later, long visits to America after the Civil War, and his temperance campaigns at home. He married Miss Butler, daughter of a Georgian planter by his first wife, whom we remember as Fanny Kemble, the Shakespearean actress. After his marriage ho lived for some years on his wife's estate, Butler's Island, in the 'seventies, and thus saw the South during the painful period of reconstruction. He has amusing stories to tell of the negroes and describes their " spirituals " at some length. During the War, Dean Leigh went out with the late Lord Brassey in the ' Sunbeam' to the Mediterranean and acted for a time as a chaplain in Egypt. His nephew, Mr. Owen Wister, contributes 'a kindly preface to the book. " Here," he says, " we have a particular instance of that kind of Englishman produced by the landed gentry generation after generation. . . . Where is he to-day, where will he be fifty years hence ? "
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