Bdtoin Octavius Tregelles. Edited by his Daughter, Sarah C. Fox.
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—E. 0. Tregelles, described as a "civil
engineer and minister of the Gospel," belonged to the Society of Friends, and devoted much of his time to evangelistic work. He travelled with this object in the West Indies. In this tour a year and a half was spent ; more than a third of the volume is devoted to the description of it, taken from E. 0. Tregelles's diary. We have no wish to depreciate the worth of the diarist's character and work, but here, and indeed elsewhere, the narrative is dispropor- tionately long. A book of about a fourth of the dimensions would have sufficed, at least for the general reader. Almost the only remark of common interest that we have found, is that the Pro clamation of the Queen was a " gaudy pageant," and that the writer did not desire to "see another." Nothing else could have been expected from a loyal subject, whether Friend or not. It would have been shocking had he desired to see another.
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