Memoir of Henry Tamils. By W. C. Ingram, D.D. (Wells
Gardner, Dayton, and Co. 6s.)—We are glad to have this account of a man who was as exemplary in his life as be was able and accomplished. We cannot say, however, that the biography has been well put together or the materials judiciously treated. Some of the verse might have been retrenched with advantage; two or three stanzas would have sufficed, for instance, to show what Henry Twells was able to write at the age of thirteen. There are other compositions, too, which were meant for private rather than for public reading. On the other hand,the record of the sixteen years which Mr. Twells spent as head-master of the Godolphin School, Hammersmith, is scanty in the extreme. Just three pages are given to the "Career as a Schoolmaster," and beyond the fact that the scholars increased under his rule from forty to a 'hundred and fifty we are told absolutely nothing. The volume, nevertheless, will be found interesting. At least it lets us see Mr. Twells as he was, a good specimen of the accomplished, moderate Anglican, a cleric of a kind which no other Communion
In the world possesses. He was a hymn-priter of some eminence, "At even, when the sun was set," being his best known com- position.
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