6 DECEMBER 1902, Page 38

Seventeen Suffolk Martyrs. By Nina Frances Layard. (Smiths, Sultan Press,

Ipswich. 2s. 6d.)—We think that Canon Garratt, who writes a preface for this book, would have done well to advise the author against including among the "seventeen martyrs" the three men who destroyed the "Miraculous Rood of Dovercourt." That act was illegal ; it was more, it was a gross outrage on the belief of their fellow-citizens, and the men who did it deserved their fate.