Life of Dean Lefroy. By Herbert Leeds. (Jerrold and Sons.
Es. net.)—Mr. Leeds has furnished a biography of commendable brevity, such as we are given to understand Dr. Lefroy would have wished to be written. The facts are soon told. After a brief sojourn in the curacy to which he was ordained—he had had some years of employment in journalism—he was appointed to an important incumbency in Liverpool. Here he remained for twenty- three years, holding for the last two the archdeaoonry of Warrington. In 1889 he was made Dean of Norwich. He was installed on July 5th of that year, and died on August 11th last at Zermatt. When he was at Liverpool it was proposed to reconstruct or adorn the church. It was very unsightly, and the orowded congregation would have readily supplied the money. His reply was : "There are but two things to be done in St Andrew's Church ; let the sexton keep it clean and the parson keep it fulL" When he went to Norwich he threw himself with energy into the work of restoration. The situation was entirely changed. But he did not forget the duty of "keeping it full." He was one of the leaders in the reform of Cathedral worship. If he could have had his way, he would have made radical changes in the distribution of Cathedral endowments. Here we must own ourselves unable to follow him. We agree, however, in his condemnation of the practice of letting the residentiary houses to summer tenants. Dean Lefroy was of the militant type as an educationist and as a champion of the Evangelical Party. Of these matters we say nothing ; but we must quote an anecdote of one of his Alpine holidays. He met a young Swiss, and asked him what flower he was wearing in his *oat "It's a butterfly," answered the man, and Dr. Lefroy saw a movement of its wings. "If I had not been a Dean I would have blacked that fellow's eye," he afterwards said.
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