Cornwall Forty Years After. By J. Stephen Flynn. (Truslove and
Hanson. 2e. Od. net.)—Cornishmen and those who know Cornwall, and indeed Churchmen generally, Will be interested in these pleasant and humorous reminiscences, in which the Cornish fisherman and the Cornish parson, as well as Bishops Phiflpotts and Temple, are equally prominent. " Maester Bassett, of I had as much money as you, wet wed I do ? Well, Sir, I'd a hey feggy puddin' ivvery day an' a new preacher ivvery Sunday." That remark of a labourer recalls the old Cornish love of sermons, as ' keen as it is in Camarvon or in Thrums. The author caps it with a story of the Rev. Mark Guy Pearce, who, dressed in plain clothes, ventured to attend a village Methodist anniversary. A wily deacon recognized him, inveigled him on some pretest into the vestry and Melted him in, announcing forthwith to the crowd that the famous preacher was in the vestry and could be inspected at a charge of threepence a bead.
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