Outhberht of Lindisfarne his Life and Times. By Alfred C.
Fryer. (S. W. Partridge.)—Mr. Fryer has studied his subject with care, though he has not, in a very largo degree, the power of presenting it with vividness. His description of the death of Baeda, for instance, is not equal to what has been written before on the same subject. The picturesque little details are omitted. "On each [of his fellow. priests] he bestowed some small gift, as a memorial." Why not have given us a few more lines, to tell us what the gifts were,—spioes, and so forth, his private store, the only wealth he had ? It is in such things that the art of making history vivid greatly lies. But the book is a careful and trustworthy work, written with candour, and out of a knowledge sufficiently full, and it may be consulted with both profit and pleasure.
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