BIOGRAPHY,
The late Sir John Kirk, who died last April at the age of seventy-four, was for many years the secretary of the Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society. In that capacity he did a great work for the poor children in the slums, and Mr. Williamson's interesting account of his life will please Sir John Kirk's innumerable friends. Never was a knighthood more rightly bestowed than that which King Edward conferred on him in 1907. The Union, it may be noted, was quick to take up the idea of holiday homes, suggested by Miss Tucker (" A.L.O.E.") in 1869, and its skilled help was enlisted by the late Sir Arthur Pearson when he started his Fresh Air Fund in 1892. Two maps, showing the many missions at work in London and the branch institutions in the Home Counties, will surprise and delight readers who are not acquainted with the great organization built up by Sir John Kirk during his long and useful life.
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