Simple Talks to Little Children. By Lady Snagge. (Skeffington and
Son. 3s. 61)—These " Simple Talks," numbering between thirty and forty, are brief—averaging some three pages of text— direct, easy to understand, with just the little touches which a child would appreciate. In short, they well deserve the com- mendation with which Canon Malcolm MacColl introduces them. As it is always well to be exact—children are sometimes very acute in detecting errors—it should not have been said that Scripture speaks of Gabriel as an "archangel." That name is applied to Michael only. To say, again, that "no one can be called a saint until his or her life is over in this world " might call forth from an observant child the question, " Why does St. Paul call the people to whom he is writing, some of them not very good. people too, ' saints '? " And, as a matter of fact, the word is used in common talk in a way different from the ecclesiastical usage.
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