22 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 29

Stories of the Saints, and the Anglo - Saxon Church. By the

Rev. A. D. Crake, B.A. (Printed at Holy Trinity Convent, Oxford.)— These stories, the work of a writer whose premature death was a great loss to the cause of wholesome literature, originally appeared in the Convent magazine. They are seven in number, and belong to the period before the Conquest. St. Wilfrid and others appear in them. The "First Fruits of the Wight" is afine tragic story.