Eleanor Leslie : a Memoir. By J. M. Stone. (Art
and Book Company. 7s. 6d.)—The Life of Eleanor Leslie is a book which has little interest for any but Catholic readers. Mrs. Leslie was a devout lady, apparently of much personal charm. In middle life she entered the Roman Church. In a short time she converted all her children and her husband to her new faith— Mrs. Leslie bad no doubt a gift for proselytising, and at the time of the Oxford Movement she was instrumental in many conver- sions. Three of her children entered convents. The sentiment of the book is entirely foreign to the Protestant mind. In a eulogistic passage Mrs. Leslie is spoken of as "greedy of suffering," and as being " enabled to leap forward and welcome trials." It is strange to hear of a son who during his novitiate was given " a special injunction to be affectionate " to his mother, on one of the rare occasions when she was allowed to see him.
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