21 OCTOBER 1899, Page 23

A Day in my Clerical Life. By the Rev. R.

E. Veagh. (T. Fisher Unwin. 38. 6d.)—" Veagh" is, we presume, a pseudonym, and the "Archdeacon Veagh" who is reported as recommending his clergy to " cultivate a sense of humour " (an anachronism in the first quarter of the eighteenth century) a mythical person. All through the book we are at a loss to know whether the writer is serious or not. Anyhow, some of the things which he says, be they fun or earnest, are in doubtful taste. On the whole, we should say that the book, though the writer sometimes rises to better things, is a misapplication.