MEMOIRS OP E. P. BRADY.
THE subject of these Memoirs was born a Quaker ; educated in the Friends' School at Islington ; and gave such satisfaction by his
"orderly conduct," that he was apprenticed to the institution. Soon after manhood, a tendency to consumption was developed : to recruit his health, he went to France and Geneva,--apparently sojourning with Quakers ; and on his return to England, he was appointed to a situation in the Society's School at Croydon. Here he married ; and remained, with the exception of a few brief excur- sions, till his death, which took place last year. From boyhood poor BRADY seems to have been decidedly pious, and an invalid ; and his spiritual or bodily condition form the main subject of his journals and letters, of selections from which this volume mainly consists. Sometimes these are touching from his resignation ; others, though commonplace to strangers, will no doubt have at- traction for his " own people ;" and sometimes they border on the debateable ground, where the grave and the ludicrous mingle. Take a few examples.
3(1 nio. 15th. In looking over the events of to-day, I believe I suffered loss from reading the light and frivolous contents of a newspaper. May it serve as a caution for the future. The enemy is ever on the alert to instil poison
into our minds." r, " In the hinder part of the diligence was a Black man, who, we understand, is employed by sonic bankers at Paris to transact business for them. As he
was very noisy, calliiig. oat to persons on the road, singing, &e. I took the opportunity of presenting him with a tract on Silence, and another containing Observations on the Carnal and Spiritual State of Man, by W. Allen." " Before we reached Abbeville, we were left alone for a short time with a passenger, who proceeded no !lather with us. As he was very busy singing and whistling, we gave him one of the tracts, which be read with great at ten- tion. After -awhile, he returned it, saying it was good for those that believed it, but not for him. I inquired his rensons for objecting: he replied, it con-
tained various allusions to Jesus Christ, in whom he did not believe. Hophos todo hint some little good, I gave him W. Allen's Observations on the Carnal and Spiritual State of Man. rids he perused attentively ; but I could see from his countenance and actions that he was not pleased with the contents. He returned this also after awhile, nor could we prevail upon him to keep them."
" 10th mo. 13th. 1 inn-c observed, with great regret, a considerable decrease of serious feeling among the boys lately ; mai on endeavouring to account for it, I cannot help fearing that my own want of growth in the best things may tend to retard their progress."
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