Lighter Moments. Edited by Frederick Douglas How. (Isbister and Co.
2s. ad.)—This volume is made out of a collection of stories made by Bishop Walsh= How. The Bishop himself in giving the original manuscript to the editor, expressed a hope that some such use might be made of it. A feW " chestnuts" have found their way in, unless we are to sup- pose that these odd doings and sayings are actually repeated in life. Among the best are the Irish stories. An "M. P." is glad that the bridge which separated Catholics and Protestants had been broken down ; a driver to whom a tourist had said, " The Devil seems to have a good deal of property in these parts " (he had been told of a " Devil's Glen " and " a Devil's Kitchen "), replies, "Indeed, yer honour, he has ; but he's mostly an absentee, and lives in London" ; a professor prefaces his speech at a Church Congress with, " Before I begin my speech, let me say " ; a preacher concludes his discourse with, " My brethren, let .not this world rob you of a peace which it can neither give nor take away."
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