Recollections of a Director. By the Rev. John Edward Kempe.
(Printed for Private Circulation.)—Mr. Kempe was made a director of the Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society forty-five years ago, "nearly half of his life," as he explains. He has survived all of his original colleagues and not a few of those who filled their places. Here he gives in as pleasant and kindly a way as it is possible to imagine his recollections of some of them. Although the " Clerical " element has the precedence in the title —on the principle, as our author suggests, by which the least dignified personages come first in a procession—the chief rulers of the Society come from the medical profession, while there is a "general" element of distinguished laymen. We should say, looking at the matter from outside, that the arrangement is a good one. A clerical majority, conscious of their "business" deficiencies, would be apt to be dominated by the actuary. There are some pleasant recollections of eminent persons, among them Dean Dale, Sir C. Locock, Sir William Jenner, Joseph Henry Green, and Sir John Mowbray, and a glimpse into the board-room itself,
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