13 FEBRUARY 1886, Page 23

Our Friends in Paradise; or, Sanctorum Dulcis Meneoria. (Wells Gardner,

Heston, and Co.)—The Bishop of Lichfield has written an emphatic commendation of this volume. It contains a text for every day in the year, and one or more extracts of a consolatory kind, bearing on the state of the departed and our relations to them, with an opposite page for names of departed friends ; in fact, is a birth- day-book of the dead, the day of death being reckoned the day of birth,—the janua altioris vitce.