Sketches in Sunshine and Storm. By W. J. Knox Little.
(Long- mans.)—Canon Knox Little describes his book as " a collection of miscellaneous essays and notes of travel." Perhaps if he had added "portions of sermons," he would not have been incorrect,— certainly some of his paragraphs have a rhetorical ring about them. In the first chapter, two or three pages are devoted to a description of Algiers ; after that, the author tells the story of Geronimo, "the Martyr of Algiers," interspersing it somewhat too copiously with moralisings of his own. About the Martyr himself there is very little, four or five pages perhaps ; but what look like whole, or, to say the least, half sermons of Mr. Knox Little, are imbedded in the story. In " The Tombs of the Kings " the same course is followed, though the preaching is not quite so prominent ; and so it goes on through the whole book. Some- times we have more of the element of travel, sometimes more of history ; but we are never permitted to forget that the writer is a preacher.
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