30 AUGUST 1902, Page 27

The Silver Legend Saints for Children. By J. A. Taylor.

(Sands and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Here are some forty stories of the saints, told well and in a way suitable to the readers for whom they are meant. It may be that we should not have always made the same choice as has been made here or always drawn the same moral, but we have little criticism to make on the selection or the handling. We do not think that the vision of the child who called the future saint from his game of ball was meant to warn against some games, for there is no game into which envy and

jealousy may not enter. Its real meaning was ascetic. Surely St. Edmund the King was found under a bridge, not in a church, by the heathen Danes.