The Parson's Sons. By One of Them. (Alter Brown.)—This is
a curious book, of which it is difficult to discern the purpose, unless it be to confirm a popular belief that the sons of parsons are often matevais sujets. Of his brother, the writer says, with that charm- ing candour which is permitted among relatives, that he was "probably the wickedest man I ever knew." Of himself he does not give a very attractive account. His father he describes as a man, not, indeed, in any way wicked himself, but just such as to promote wickedness in all who had anything to do with him. After all, this is a very dubious moral to enforce. Any other meaning in the book we cannot discern ; but there is much of a very repulsive ]And, and something of that which we cannot help regarding as noxious. The publication of such a volume we consider to be a grave mistake.
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