We are glad to see a new edition of The
Story of Westminster Abbey, by Violet Brooke-Hunt (Nisbet and Co.) The author has been peculiarly successful in bringing out the human interest which belongs to the famous people whose names and lives are associated with the great Abbey. (Why not an index? It is no great hardship to have to read through so pleasant a book, but still an index would be useful.) Miss Brooke-Hunt begins with the legend of Edric, the fisherman to whom St. Peter appeared as he plied his craft near Thorney Island, and takes us down to Tennyson, finishing her volume with a record of worthies who did not, indeed, "attain unto the first," but well deserved this memorial, with some pathetic little notices of quite obscure people who somehow found a place in this Campo Santo.
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