4 JANUARY 1890, Page 33

The Story of Father Damien. By Frances E. Cooke. (Sonnen-

schein.)—The authoress of this new version of the pathetic story of the heroic Joseph de Veuster has not, and does not pretend to have, anything fresh to say. She carefully read and digested what has been already written by Father Pamplaile, Mr. E. Clifford, and others, and has prepared a version of the now familiar narrative for young people. This work has been done with judgment, with zeal, and with a total absence of anything savouring of the odium theologicum. The value of the work as, say, a gift-book or prize for a Sunday scholar, is increased by the illustrations exhibiting the grandeur of Nature in the neighbourhood of which live the most miserable of human beings.