CURRENT LITERATURE.
Traces of Past and Present. By the Rev. R. Staveley. (W. McGee, Dublin.)—This is a book of anecdotes, in a way entertain- ing, but hardly as funny as we should expect a collection of Irish stories to be. But there are good things. An Irish Bishop offered to help the incumbent of the Cathedral parish. He preached, to the horror of his friend, most heretical sermons. The incumbent, screwing up his courage, said that being now settled in his parish he would not trespass on his Lordship's time any more. "Don't say another word," said the Prelate, "there's lots of them there," and pointed to a pile of MSS. They were the discourses of his grandfather. & Unitarian minister. This was the Bishop who delivered to his clergy a charge " conveyed " from Archbishop Sumner. When this was pointed out he explained that the Arch- deacon, whom he had asked him to write it for him, was to blame. The Provost of Eton wrote an admirable epigram :— "Mesa IT TITAN.
Cantuarensis. Pr:vatam monit•,s relinque chartam, Mean one. iuprobe, pone co,.c Llea, ; Quae se ip,1 rues sn3t. Timmnsia Town requirio?
Frosty& &rier hoc ophoopata. Tests al moque° moot voc,re.-
Another Bishop was confronted by a sturdy beggar who demanded alms. "Not a penny will I pay, till the rents are reduced," said his Lordship, and vanished before the fellow could recover from his astonishment.
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