TIIE pleasure of reading these reminiscences comes from the honesty
and kindliness of the author's nature. She has been
engaged in " good works " from her youth—in missions, hospitals, churches, boys' clubs, girls' clubs, everywhere ; but there is never a suggestion of complacency or self-con- gratulation. She has kept her wits about her, too, in all her experiences ; and there are many lively and affecting incidents scattered through the book: In the East End, she tells us, I found some Irish people were scandalized at my buying muffins and crumpets, saying they were meant as a mockery of the Mass." The author herself was con- verted to Roman Catholicism, and most of her labours were in Roman Catholic charities. It may well be imagined that wholehearted work of this kind in the East End of London did not spare her the sight of the miseries and degradations of mankind ; it is all the more refreshing to see how she has kept the clearness and happiness of her spirit.
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