6 APRIL 1895, Page 26

Trees Planted by the River. By Frances A. Bevan. (Nisbet

and Co.)—This is not exactly a book of devotion, but it is a book about the devout life, and of where its true ideal is to be found. Mrs. Bevan has studied her subject in books that do not come within the ordinary range of reading. It would be a rough general description of the men and women in whom she finds her ideals to say that they were mystics. This is not a book to criticise; but it will certainly be found to repay perusal.