Good Words, 1893. Edited by Donald Macleod, D.D. The Sunday
Magazine. Edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh. (Isbister and Co.)—We have always admired the good sense with which these two magazines are conducted. Between them they have done a great deal to give breadth and reasonableness to the views of a very large class about Sunday and week-day reading. Good Words is obviously fit for any day, if it keeps, as it certainly does, to its title ; and no one who has any interest at all in matters of serious importance, whether sacred or secular, but will find the Sunday Magazine good reading for any time when he may chance to take it up. In the first-mentioned of the two, we have a serial story running through the year, "To Right the Wrong." This comes from the pen of Edna Lyall, and we shall probably have occasion to notice it more particularly at some other time. All the other stories are short, contained within the limits of a single paper. "A Serpent of Old Nile" is, perhaps, the one which we should not be sorry to see away. Professor D. Masson gives us the cream of some of his unequalled knowledge of Milton's life in his four papers, "On Local Memories of Milton," and Dr. Jessop has three peculiarly interesting papers on the "Ups and Downs of an Old Nunnery." These special histories of various monastic foundations help towards settling the great question of the Disestablishment in Henry VIII.'s time. What the King's visitors said is little to be trusted. It is to the earlier visitations that we must look, if we want really genuine evidence.
Rev. H. D. Riunsley contributes an obituary notice of R. D. Nettle- ship, Canon Benham writes on Winchester Cathedral, and the Bishop of Worcester tells us something about his old Cathedral at Peterborough. We must also mention the series of twelve " Sunday Readings," by Bishop Boyd Carpenter, on "The Influ- ence of Christ on Character," and a most sensible paper on " Criti.
cism and the Bible" by the Rev. S. Alexander. The serial story in the Sunday Magazine is Mr. Silas Hocking's " One in Charity." There is a shorter serial, "Hope," by Mrs. Evelyn Everett-Green, and the accustomed proportion of one-number tales. Among the miscellaneous contents of the volume are the "Talks with our Con- tributors." These are interesting and instructive ; but we cannot but feel as we read that there are questions which the interviewer might have put with advantage to some of these gentlemen. There are some specially good papers under the heading of "Missionary and Travel." The" Philanthropic" section is well represented, as one might expect from the antecedents of the editor. "Sunday Evenings with the Children" is another customary feature of the magazine which we are glad to see repeated. Half of the twelve are contributed by Mr. Waugh himself ; the other contributors are Messrs. S. Reid Howatt, A. S. Maeduff, the late Alexander Macleod, R. F. Horton, and Mrs. G. S. Reaney. The obituary notice of Bishop Phillips Brooks is worthy of note, and so are Mr. Newman Hall's five papers on "Jubilee Remembrances of Persons I have Met." Precentor Venables contributes to a subject in which he is an expert, "A Walk Round Lincoln Minster."
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