25 JANUARY 1919, Page 21

Blessed Giles of Assisi. By Walter IV. Seton. (Manchester University

Press, for the British Society of Franciscan Studies.) —Giles of -Assisi was the third disciple to throw in his lot with St. Francis in 1208 or 1203. He is known to readers of the Little Flowers of St. Francis, and his golden Sayings have been translated. But Mr. Seton is the first to publish here a critical

edition of the Life of Giles, with an English version. The text is that of a neglected manuscript in the Bodleian. Like all the early Franciscan writings, it is profoundly interesting and touching, and, ae Mr. Seen says in his introductory essay, it is by no means devoid of humour.