Leo of Mediolanum. By Gertrude Hollis. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 611.)— Miss
Hollis gives us in this volume a series of well-executed scenes in the life of St. Ambrose. We see him called by the popular voice to the Bishop's chair, receiving the news of the disaster of Fladrianople and the fate of Valens, and repelling Theodosius from the church portal after the massacre of Thessalonica.. The accessories are well worked in, and the tale is full of the spirit of the time. Fathers and mothers who would ten thousand times sooner see their children dead than unsound in the faith are not so common now as they were then, and even devout persona do not first satisfy themselves when some dear one has died for his country whether he has been properly baptised. One may doubt, quite apart from any opinion on these things, whether it is well to make them so prominent in a book of this kind.
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