The Life of John William Wo2she,P.S.d. Edited; with an Introduc-
tion, by Montgomery Carmichael. (John Murray. 6s. net.)—This volume is chiefly a Life by Mr. Philip Walshe (1862-1901) of his father, John William Walshe (1837-1900). The older Walshe devoted his life to the study of St. Francis and the Franciscans; the younger devoted the brief space between his father's death and his own to writing this memoir. It gives a very pleasing picture of a life that had an unusually romantic side to it. The story of John William Walshe arriving at Leghorn, meeting with Lord Frederick Clitheroe, and finally marrying Lord Frederick's daughter is, if not stranger than fiction, at least far more attrac- tive than fiction commonly shows itself to be nowadays. (Mr. Philip Walshe seems not to have held that the Fifth Com-
rnandment includes grandfather and grandmother.) Of course, there is ranch in the book that we cannot concede—the force, for instance, of the argument that a convert to Romanism gives up nothing that he believes, only accepts much more, as he most .certainly does—but there is much that is quite delightful.
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