Being and Doing. (Edward Howell, Liverpool.)—It may be as well
to say at once that this is a selection of the "birthday-book" type. When further it is stated that the selection is described by its maker as one of "helpful thoughts," and that it is dedi- cated" to the members of the St. Barnabas Guild, whose object is to do all they can for the relief of suffering and misery," its character may be understood. It is a book of moral and religious stimulus,—in homceopathic doses, such as Baron de Bunsen's
Every day ought to be begun as a serious work, standing alone in itself, and yet connected with the past and the future, and more especially with the eternal future in the Kingdom of God ;" or George Eliot's "Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges." This volume is, indeed, in its way a model compilation, the majority of sound moralists, ancient and modern, Christian and pagan, having been almost mercilessly requisitioned. It is a book, in the first place, for those who are in need of moral help, but it will also be enjoyed by connoisseurs in ethics.
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