SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this ;wading tos notic# nth Books of the lossk as have not teen reserved for soviets in other forms.] - Thomas Welbank Powle. (B. H. Blackwell.)—Many readers will be glad to see this brief record of a busy and useful life. Mr. Fowle worked successively at Staines (1859-63), Horton (1863-68). St. Luke's, Nutford Place (1868-87), and Islip, where he died in 1903 at the age of sixty-seven. He was an original thinker, in theology a "Broad Churchman," and keenly interested in politics, especially on its social side. He had distinct views on the old-age pension scheme, and in his own parish he was indefatigable in working various plans for pro- moting the welfare of his people. He had successes and disap- pointments. It troubled him to see that the allotments, to the management of which he devoted no little time, tended to come into a few hands. This often happens. Allotments are seldom a great success where the population is purely agricultural. The labourer sees enough of the land. Would a circulating library prosper if it had to depend on a public of reviewers ? This little pamphlet describes for us in a sympathetic spirit a very fine character.
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