2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 11

Stories of the Royal Humane Society. By Frank Mundell. (Sunday

School Union.)—Mr. Mundell, who has already given us " Stories of the Fire Brigade " and " Lifeboat," now does justice to another and not less meritorious kind of heroic effort. He begins with an account of the Society and of the distinctions which it bestows. The doers of brave deeds are of all ranks, from a marquis to a sailor-boy. Some of them have a wonderfully large record. John Ellerthorpe of Hull, who died in 1868, saved thirty-nine lives. He never failed, and to save a drowning person is not an easy matter. William Charles Bradley, of Southend, has saved twenty-nine in nineteen years. He is happily still alive. An interesting book which we are glad to have seen.