1 FEBRUARY 1868, Page 22

Three Legends of the Early Church. By Christopher James Rieth-

miffier. (Bell and Daldy.)—The flight of St. Peter from Rome, the persecution under Nero, and the immersion of St. John in the cauldron of boiling oil are the subjects of Mr. Riethmuller's ballads. In each the story is simply told, without any attempt to add modern colour to these "pictures of the remote past."