The Pocket George Macdonald. By Alfred H. Hyatt. (Chatto and
Windus. 2s. net.)—Few writers lend themselves so readily to a "Choice of Passages" as does George Macdonald. The only difficulty must be to choose. He preaches, it is true, a good deal; but preaching with him does not in any way mean dulness. Some- times the sermon may seem out of place when we want to follow the action, but it is always full of thought finely expressed. We take as a specimen a few verses on "Christmas Day" (from "The Diary of an Old Soul"):— "Thou hart not made, or taught me, Lord, to care
For times and seasons—but this one glad day Is the blue sapphire clasping all the lights
That Sash in the girdle of the year 80 fair,
'When Then west born a man—because alivay Thou run and art a man, through all the flights Of thought, and time, and thousandfold creation's play."
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