3 DECEMBER 1870, Page 21

The Royal Guide to the London Charities, 1870 - 1. By Herbert

Fry. (Hardwicke.)—Here is an octavo of more than two hundred pages, which is simply a list, made as short as possible, of the hospitals, homes, schools, dm., which exist for charitable objects in London. It is a marvellous record of works in which doubtless one might detect plenty of waste, and some little jobbery, but which is honest and useful in the main. And then to think what unfathomable depths of suffering, what

hopeless wildernesses of evil there are in this same London ! Mr. Fry brings out his book now for the eighth time ; as it gives us the exact information which one often wants, we trust that this is an augury of permanent success.