Cassock and Comedy. By Athol Forbes. (Skeffington and Son.)—" There
is one weakness in this book,—the sketches are true and the characters are real." So the author. We do not doubt that he is substantially accurate in saying so. But he has overlooked a few " chestnuts " which have somehow intruded themselves among his genuine experiences. Mr Weller, senior, applied for a marriage license without having settled on the lady's name. So did "the elderly man, a farmer," who called on Mr. "Athol Forbes." It was a friend, again, of the author who spoke in a sermon of the calf which had been fatted "for years and years." This story is nearly as old as "Pickwick." But there is a good store of anecdotes which may be accepted as both new and true, and the good sense and good feeling of the writer are as evident as his capacity for humorous observation.
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