Life and Letters of Arthur Fraser Sim. (Universities' Mission.) —Arthur
Sim was a fine, vigorous, honest Englishman. with no special intellectual gifts, but a clear judgment, common-sense, and strong principle. His mind was firmly set on the vocation of the priesthood. After eight or nine years of useful work in Sunderland and West Hartlepool, he offered himself for missionary work in Africa. There he worked for something more than a year. dying at the age of thirty-three at Kota-Kota. The greater part of the letters relates to his African experiences. There is nothing very remarkable in them, but they are characteristic of a strong, level-headed, resolute man. Arthur Sim was a great oarsman, and it is a coincidence as pathetic as it is strange that the boat which the members of a Sunderland rowing club named after him went down and was lost on the day of his death.
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