Day - Dreams By Major Gambier-Parry. (John Murray.) – In this volume
we have ten essays, the work of a thoughtful, cultivated man, to which the circumstances of the writer, as we see them in the sub-title, "Thoughts from the Note-book of a Cripple," give a special interest. " Happiness " is, ap- propriately enough, the title of the first, and it is good to read that a man, however great his deprivation of things that may once have seemed indispensable, may yet be "amazingly happy." It is quite in accord with the best philosophy, pronouncing, as it does, that happiness is an "energy," to find the second essay devoted to " Work." The circumstances under which the note- worthy wcrk of the world has been done are, as the author shows, curiously varied. Other important matters connected with man's life, outward and inward, are discussed. A pen so well employed must be no small solace to the writer.
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