The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home (R.T.S., 7s.
61 each) are as full as usual of excellent reading. In the first, besides the story with which it opens,"In All Time of Our Wealth" (already noticed in the Spectator), we may mention "Problems of Bible Translation," with its interesting little glimpses of a really vast subject; the "Over-Sea Notes " ; Professor Gregory's notes of "Science and Discovery," with their wide range, covering " caelum et terras camposque liquentes " ; "A City Clerk in Canada," Colonial experiences of a "green hand" which should be useful; and "London School Board Pictures." London takes but little thought of the vast work which is going on in its midst. Mr. T. H. S. Escott contributes a curious paper on "Men of the Oxford Movement." Is it really the case that "in general company John Keble signally lacked readiness, tact, good breeding, and that politeness which St. Paul commended " ? There is a controversy with Father Gerard, S.J., on the question of Jesuit morality which seems a little out of place, though we are not saying that the editor has the worst of it. Lemkiihrs dicta must have been a little hard to defend. The contents of The Sunday at Home are not substantially different from those of the volume noticed above, though the editor contrives to give a certain appropriate tone to his selection of materials. We may make especial mention of the biographical notices, notably Mr. Meyer's Lives of some of the Christian Fathers. He does well to dwell on the qualities that make them ' akin to the Christians of all time ; still, it must be remembered that they were some way advanced on the line of road that led to- mediaeval conceptions of Christianity. Mr. F. T. Bullen's papers on "Lives of Some Deep-Sea People," by which he means various genera of fishes, are excellent. -The second half-yearly volume (May-October, 1904) of St. Nicholas (Macmillan and Co., 8s.) it will be sufficient to mention. The magazine holds its place in the- very front rank of its class.
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