The Boy and the Angel, being Sunday Morning Talks to
Chsldren. By the Rev. John Bytes. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We are sure that not a few of our readers will know, and knowing will highly prize, an earlier work by Mr. Byles, "Spring Blossoms and Summer Fruit." Here is another volume of the same kind, and not less to be commended. Mr. Byles draws his illustrations from many sources. He takes, for instance, in the discourse which gives a title to his volume, Browning's poem of Theocrite He builds another admirable sermon on a happy combination of Bunyan's allegory of "The Holy War" and the story of the Wooden Horse by which Troy was taken. The tale of Cassandra suggests another ; a hint of yet another is taken from an inci- dent in the life of the great tenor, Mario. The preacher, in short, goes very far afield for his examples ; and wherever he goes he finds excellent material, and uses it with admirable skill.
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