The World of Moral and Religious Anecdote. By Edwin Paxton
Hood. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—One can scarcely criticize a book of anecdotes, except by doubts, which may seem somewhat captious, as to. whether this or that story can be brought under the description of the title ; whether, for instance, the story of the gentleman who bequeathed £50 a year to the ringers of the Abbey Church [what Abbey church ?), on condition that they should ring various solemn and doleful changes on his wedding day and merry, mirthful peals on the anniversary of his wife's, death, is moral or religious. But "moral" is a large word. Attri- bute it to animals, and you take in another of Mr. Hood's stories, about a gentleman who laid a wager that he would make a pig walk upstairs- Mr. Hood, however, has made a good selection, and put together an amusing and instructive book.
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