Dr. Arnold of Rugby. By Rose E. Selfe. (Cassell and
Co.)— This little volume belongs to a series entitled " The World's Workers." Miss Selfe has caught the main points in Dr. Arnold's character and life, as they have been described in one of the very beat biographies ever written, adding, we gather, some additional touches from family letters which she has been allowed to see. (This refers to the first chapters.) In speaking of Arnold's election to the head-mastership of Rugby, it would have been as well to quote the remarkable expression in one of his testimonials, that " if he was chosen, he would revolutionise Public School teaching in England," a prediction more completely fulfilled than most predictions are.—With this may be mentioned :—.Iohn Bright. By the Rev. Charles Bullock. (Home Words Office.)—Mr. Bullock describes his little volume as a " non-political sketch." " My main object," he writes, "has been to depict the Christian and philanthropic side of Mr. Bright's character."—John Lawrence, "Saviour of India." By Charles Bruce. (W. P. Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh.)—The subject has been very ably treated in Messrs. Macmillan's series of " Men of Action." This will hardly bear the comparison,—and, indeed, it would not be easy to find a writer who had qualifications for his task equal to those possessed
by Sir Richard Temple, himself an Indian statesman, and one who served his apprenticeship under Lawrence himself.
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