Random Recollections. By the Rev. George Huntington. (Griffith, Farran, and
Co.)—Mr. Huntington's recollections are of Manchester. He tells us about two Bishops,—about Dr. Prince Lee, an admirable scholar, who was not quite in his right place in a Bishop's chair ; about Dr. Fraser, quite an admirable prelate, though he too made mistakes ; and about various persons, less eminent indeed, but well worth reading about. Such are Dean Bowen ; Canon Parkinson, author of "The Old Church Clock," itself a most entertaining book of reminiscences; Dr. J. M. Neale, the hymnologist. This last was a most remarkable man. His praise is in all the churches, which owe to him some of their most effective aids to devotion ; but there were good things in him which few knew. One was a most wide-reaching love of all living creatures. He could not bear to see any hard treatment ; he could not refuse his help to any applicant. The animals do not counterfeit suffering ; man, unhappily, does, and Dr. Neale was often victimised. One of his hymns is connected with a curious incident, which Mr. Huntington relates. It is that which begins "All creation groans and travails." This was written during the cattle plague. He was then on a visit to Tarporley, in Cheshire, and he was accustomed to go into the cattle-sheds and pray for the suffering creatures. The farmers were not a little astonished, but "after this, they regularly sent for him to dh so."
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