The Bells of Is. By the Rev. F. B. Meyer,
B.A. (Morgan and Scott.)—Mr. Meyer gives a romantic title to the record of what is necessarily prosaic, but is not, therefore, ignoble work. Re- calling the story of the imaginary Breton city of Is, which was swallowed up by the sea, but the music of whose bells is heard during a calm ringing out the hymn appropriate to the day, he Rays : " Similarly, as it has always seemed to me, amid the sub- merged masses, deep down at the bottom of the ocean of human life, there are yearnings and desires for a better life that ring sadly and perpetually." In other words, Mr. Meyer's book gives an account of the Christian, temperance, and other work of the philanthropic or " social reform " kind that is done in Leicester, and with which Mr. Meyer has been closely associated. It is written in simple language, and in a thoroughly evangelical spirit. Students of the minutia of sociology, however, should find it worthy of their attention. Mr. Meyer always writes cheerfully.
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