23 DECEMBER 1899, page 16

The Voice 0' The Nation.

LEAVE our furrin frens tu chatter, let 'em flatter roan', an' fuss, 'Tain't their cheerin' or their sneerin' thet can help or hinder us ; Let 'em hope we're doomed tu failure,......

Books.

ARCHBISHOP BENSON'S LIFE.* Mn. ARTHUR BENSON has had a difficult work to do, and he has done it thoroughly well. To write the Life of an Arch- bishop of Canterbury in these days......