Possibly it is somewhat childish in its style at first.
Such a reflec- tion as this, a propos of the Druid sacrifices, "Row sad those poor
parents must have felt when their children were led out to suffer a cruel death!" is trite and vapid to any audience ; but in this respact there is an improvement as the work proceeds. Of course, we find
much that we differ from. M. C. S. gives Becket, for instance, more than his due, not for courage, indeed, but for dignity. Sae does not seem to have consulted the best authority on the subject of his death, Dr. Stanley's masterly narrative in the Memorials of Canterbury. Nor does she seem to be fully acquaintsd with her subject when, in recording the munificence of Chichele, she speaks of the college at Higham Ferrara, but says nothing of All Souls'. She follows the lead of a well-known party in rejecting the name of "Protestant," unaware that it is adopted by almost every divine of note in the Anglican communion.
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