23 JUNE 1906, Page 23

The Birthday Book of the Blessed Dead. By Katharine Tynan.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson has collected here, and collected, we may say, with great care and taste, quotations from a very wide circle of literature. For every day in the year there are three, and one is always a passage from Scripture. This reduces as much as is possible the danger of incongruity, always present when varying circumstances havo to be fitted to an unvarying model. Any one who may feel this strongly may yet find the book useful as a treasury—and a very rich treasury it is—of passages which may be transferred at need to a volume'of blank pages.