Doing and Dreaming. By Edward Garrett. (Nimmo.)—A little story told
in some two hundred small pages, but well worth many lengthy novels. Mr. Garrett's subject is sufficiently expressed by the title of his book, and it is enough to say that he has treated it in a way wdrthy of its dignity and truth. It is "a tale for the young " of the best kind. But there is much in it that older readers may take to themselves with groat profit. We must quote one fine paragraph :— " Was there ever a sacrifice which at some time in its history did not seem too dear? What great man who has freed a country has not turned disgusted from the bickering and pettiness of its politics, to regret the graves which were filled to buy such a freedom ? There must not be too much counting of the cost in our beginnings. It is well that we cannot see some of the near consequences of our heroism, or they would remain unperformed. If we could see all their consequences, and the consequences of their consequences, that might have a different effect."
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