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Thew Enrrtom.—Prayers from the Poets: a Calendar of Devotion, compiled

and edited by Laurie Magnus, M.A., and Cecil Headlam, NA.; also Flowers of the Cave, by the same editors (Routledge and Sons, 4s. 6d. net each vol.) (The " Cave," we may explain, is the grave, and death generally.)—In the "Library of Standard Biographies" (Hutchinson and Co., is. and 2s. net) Southey's Life of Wesley. The biography has been abridged. An interesting note might have been added about Wesley's relations to the College of which he was for many years a Fellow.—Plea for a Simpler Life. By George S. Keith. (A. and C. Black. 6d.)—The Confession of Faith, of a Man of Science. By Ernst HaeckeL (Same pub- :64)