Stories and Episodes of Home Mission Work. (Wells Gardner, Darton,
and Co.)—If we felt called upon to criticise this little volume, we might point out that it might have been more effectively arranged. As it is, we would say to our readers—open it where you please ; if you come upon what great people, primo ministers, arch- bishops, and the like have said about the work, pass it by, and go on till you find, as you will very soon find, what the workers themselves say. It must be a very hard heart indeed that will not be touched by some of these pitiful stories of ignorance and misery. No of snachinery can deal with the mass of suffering which these pages—and they might have been multiplied tenfold—reveal. The work needed can only be done by the efforts of individual workers ; and the object of this volume is to procure the means by which their number may be increased.
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