Jubilee - Tide in Rome. By John George Cox. (Burns and Oates.)
—Mr. Cox went to Rome as correspondent of the Tablet, at the
jubilee of the Pope's priesthood (we hope that this is not too
secular a way of expressing the object of his journey). Anyhow, he wrote letters to the Tablet describing what he saw. These
letters he has now republished with "certain reconsiderations."
He has done well, for they make a very interesting book. Mr. Cox is not without humour, and he has some amusing as well as some
serious matters to relate. We read, for instance, how a certain M. Kno, who represented China at a gathering of the Propaganda, sang his speech, a great compliment according to the Chinese etiquette, amid inextinguishable laughter from the company. But what moved the Pope's laughter—" he smiled,—in fact, he fairly laughed "—was to hear "that the Rev. Dr. Lee, of Lambeth, had had a solemn Te Deans in the Anglican parish church of All Saints'," in honour of his Jubilee. Among other curiosities is the
account of Fra °ramie°, who devotes his life to taking out the teeth of the poor ; he thinks he has taken out "millions." It is a well-meant, but, considering what scieitific dentists think of taking out teeth, possibly a mischievous kindness.
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