SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such nooks of the souk is haw not bug reserved for review in other forms.] Lady Lettice, Vi-countess Falkland. By John Dimon. Edited, with Introduction, by M. F. Howard. (John Murray. 65. net.)— John Duncon was vicar of Rattenden, in Essex, and was deprived of his living in 1642 (circa). He found a home in Lady Falkland's house at Great Tew, and wrote this book as a memorial of his benefactress. Lady Falkland was a person of a most devout temper. It might seam that something of a morbid strain was in it, if we were to judge from one or two passages. But these touch on the last portion of her life, when bodily weakness had much increased upon her. One passage, as indicating the practice of even the most devout at that time, may be quoted. She had received the Eucharist on Christmas Day, and thought of receiving again the next Sunday. "The singularity and unaccustomedness of receiving so often dissuaded her."
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