24 MARCH 1877, Page 23

Ministerial Duties : Charges by the late Archdeacon Batten. Edited

-by-Dr. Vaughan. (Macmillan and Co.)—Dr. Vaughan has done good service in republishing these charges. They are evidently the utter- ances of a man who in every branch of his office worked up to a very high standard. The hints on " Catechising " are especially suggestive. In the preface, we are told that Archdeacon Batten had a rare gift of humour, which, however, he kept well under control. "No one knows," he said one day," how many good things I keep on the other side of my teeth."