24 JUNE 1911, Page 24

Wesley and Kingswood and its Free Churches. By George Ayres.

(Bristol : J. W. Arrowsmith. 2s. 6d. net.)—Thero is no name more frequently connected with that of John Wesley than Kings- wood. Here we are told about the place—a coal region, originally a royal forest—its population and industry, and the spiritual work done there by Wesley and others, for there have been other activities besides that of the Methodists. All this makes an in- teresting story, not unrelieved by some lighter anecdote, as of the collier who, having been convinced that he was one of the elect, proceeded to administer a beating to his wife.