12 DECEMBER 1896, Page 23

My Book of Heroism (Edward Arnold) contains the stories of

some score and more of heroes and heroines,—Sir Philip Sidney is the first in point of time ; Martin E. Sprague, of the Metro- politan Fire Brigade, who was mortally injured in October, 1895, in endeavouring to rescue a woman and a child, comes last. Among the other names are those of Gordon, Livingstone, Havelock, Sister Dora. Less famous are Grace Bussell, who emulated the courage of another Grace, Darling by name; and Jim Gwins, of the John Hanna,' a Mississippi steamer.