BOOKS OF DEVOTION.-Short Lives of the Dominican Saints. By a
Sister of the Congregation of St. Catharine of Siena. Edited by the Very Rev. Father Procter. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. is. 6d )- Ham Sufferings. By Francois Cop*. Trans- lated by Catherine M. Welby. With an Introduction by the Rev. W. H. Hutton. (Rivingtons. 3s. 6d.)-It would be ungracious not to sympathise with the movement that is bringing about in literary France a reaction towards belief and a religious life. Mr. Hutton would have done better, perhaps, if he could have told us about it without expressing his scorn for the "typical English tourist," and M. Coppde himself would have adorned his confessions somewhat more if he had not sympathised so strongly with the persecution of Dreyfus. The old spirit of the auto.da fe is not quite extinct.-Thoughts on the Collects from Advent to Trinity. By Ethel Romanes. (Mowbray and Co. Is. 6d.)-Our Saviour : Pictures and Stories from the Life of Jesus Christ. Illustrated. (Same publishers.)-Living by the Spirit. By Horatio W. Dresser. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) -The Force of Truth. By the Rev. Thomas Scott. (R.T.S.) -"Yet Will I Trust in Him": an Autobiographical Sketch, by Miss H. R. Higgens (same publishers), though not in form a book of devotion, will suggest kindred thoughts, not the less effective because they come from a real experience.-Something of the same kind, though the personal circumstances were very different, may be said of "A Mother in Israel": the Life of Sarah Bonney, by the Author of " Told for a Memorial," with an Introduction by Canon Mason (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co , is.)-We may mention in the same connection The Children's Round of Fast and Festival, by the Rev. Charles C. Bell (Mowbray and Co.); and from the same publishers The Anglo-Catholic Kalendar. We see that the first supposes the at least occasional presence of children at the Holy Communion. Is this the practice of Carlisle Cathedral, where Mr. Bell, we see, is a minor Canon ?- Yet another volume may be noted, The Treasury of American Sacred Song, selected and edited by W. Garrett Horder (H. Frowde and Co., 3s. 6d.), a new edition containing twenty-eight additional poems. Animal and other Talks for Young and Old. By C. H. Perry. (T. French Downie. 2s. 6d.)-The Swearer's Prayer. (R.T.S. 6d. net.)-The history of this tract, published a century or so ago, is certainly very remarkable. It is noticeable that the latest story of the good effect produced by it dates from 1843. One would not like to think that it has ceased to be useful -it is a remarkably pointed appeal to the conscience-but it is
probable that the enormous increase in the bulk of printed matter has a tendency to diminish the force of any one specimen.
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