5 JULY 1873, Page 24

Gone Before. By Henry Southgate. (Lockwood.)—The compiler describes his work

as "a manual of consolation for the bereaved and a well of sympathy for the sorrowing, filled from many sources." Mr. Southgate has had plenty of practice in his work, knows, within a limite I range, where to look for good things, and shows, for the most part, a good taste in selecting. The volume, we are glad to see, is of more convenient and manageable size than some that we have seen from the same editorship. It would make a very nice present.