The Litters of 'Peter Lombard. (Canon Benin:nos.) Edited by Ellen
etedley Baxter. (Macmillan and Co. 3s: 6d. net )Ciiiion Benham-wae a contributor to- the Church Times for the last twenty years-of his life,- often pellet-Ming his weeklytask- under present* of much bodily suffering. Here we have a selection of these con- tlibtitiotut—the name of "Lonibard" having heat- suggested the factethatthethnech of which he was rector—St. Edmund the King=—stood in Lombard Street. The niosie hitereeting of the paperer haveto do with, the antiqtdties of Louden; a subject- in Which Canon Betihainvins an expert. A- largepart of the -volume is occupbatavitheephitesant narrative one holiday spent in' Heidi and Palestine: But the best of all of the volume- is the sent, only too brief, of how William Benham made bleteelf what he was Hewes- a- eillageeboy, taught in a villsigeescitock not by-any means-up to the work which is reeadred Mem& school* nowadays. But he resolutely •made his way dp. Otte stroke of luck he had, a patron who was ready with sympathy and help ; but this would not have helped a lad who had not the root of the matter in him. To those who knew him in later life there was nothing to suggest that he was not gently born and bred.
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