4 APRIL 1868, Page 19

St. Patrick,, the Missionary of Ireland. By Joseph S. Smithson.

(Hamilton and Adams.)—Little is to be told of the life of St. Patrick, and Mr. Smithson has not told that little in a style that commends itself. Some of his interjections are in the worst taste. However, the moral that he draws at the end of his short work redeems these failings, and the first eighty pages may be read for the sake of the last ten.