12 AUGUST 1893, Page 25

Ourselves and Others. By Samuel B. James, D.D. (Home Words.) — Here

we have twenty odd essays on a variety of sub- jects connected with manners and morals. The writer mingles reminiscences of his own, not always pertinent to the matter in hand, and certainly not always worth recording. He has some- thing to say, and h's counsel i3 often good. The defeat of the book is its want of anything 1,1re a literary touch. Mr. James can, we presum,, command admission to the columns of Home Words. It would do him no little good if he had to write to please an exigeant editor.