A Candle in the Sea. By the Rev. Edward A.
Rand. (Nisbet and Co.)—This volume is intended to interest its readers— American readers in the first place—in "lighthouse life." With this life Mr. Rand contrives to mix up some pictures of the doings of young collegians. By that happy versatility which dis- tinguishes the American citizen, the young man from College, without any difficulty, assumes the responsibilities of an assistant lighthouse-keeper, while his principal seems to have transferred his services to the same line of life from keeping a "store." We must frankly say that Mr. Rand's book would have been better without the College element. Of course we are prepared for the
introduction of two charming young ladies, though they do not contribute much to our knowledge of the subject; but we could have well spared the academical episodes, and especially the villanies, of De Were. Why does Mr. Rand speak, without a word of blame, of so horrible a cruelty to a bumble-bee, whose eyes have been put out, and then turned into a garden patch ?
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