5 MAY 1888, Page 45

The Parish Guide. Edited by the Rev. Theodore Johnson. (Wells

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This " handbook for the use of the Clergy and Lay-Helpers " is a most useful publication. Many writers and workers of deserved eminence have contributed to it, and it is dedicated to one of the most practical and sensible of English Bishops, Dr. Thorold, of Rochester. Every possible subject is dealt with we could only show how exhaustively by re- printing bodily the "Contents." Christmas-trees, cricket-clubs, cottage hospitals, emigration, friendly societies, missions, penny- banks, penny-dinners, singing-classes, window-gardening, societies for children, are some of the subjects taken at random. Every- thing seems to be good ; but what is the itprcii with a K that fivapa Sebevutrt