5 OCTOBER 1912, Page 14

William Shaer; : a Brief Sketch. Edited by his Daughter,

M. J. Shaen. (Longman and Co. 3s. net.)-It is twenty- five years since William Shaen died, and this short biographical sketch by his daughter will be interesting chiefly to the narrowing circle of his personal friends. Strangers reading the little book will make acquaintance with a philanthropist of no common attraction. The education of women, the protection of women and children, and the cause of purity everywhere, and in all its branches, occupied his long and beneficent life.