12 SEPTEMBER 1868, Page 24

The Pilgrim with the Ancient Book, by M. A. C.

(Hunt and Co.), is a volume of sacred verse, of very poor quality indeed, which touches a great variety of solemn subjects, but does not by any means adorn them. It may be imagined what M. A. C. is capable of when we say that he paraphrases the Lord's Prayer into thirty of the most washy verses imaginable. His subject protects the writer from ridicule, but it is only right to tell him in the plainest language that in writing such rubbish he commits a great wrong against that which we doubt not he holds very dear.