The Little that is Good. ByHerold Bogbie. (Cassell andCo. 5.s.
net.) —Walt Whitman's phrase about, "the little that is good steadily hastening towards immortality" is not, perhaps, the moot fitting title for these stories of Ragged School work in the East End, as they rightly suggest that there is much that is good among the slum-dwellers. Mr. Begbie relates with much kindly humour his true stories of waifs who have been reclaimed and who have become valuable citizens, and loaves us with the impression that still more might have been done had Sir John Kirk and his Society received fuller support. We like especially " The Bishop of Heston Market," a homely old evangelist who had prepared his autobiography for the author, and insisted on shouting it at him as if be were an open. air meeting before consenting to sit down and talk. Mr. Begbie has written a cheering book.
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