ably well said by one whose genius and character and devotion are a God-given fortune to the enterprise. Whether we read her pages or listen to her impressive tones we are led to think of Mrs. Booth as a sort of Deborah of our land and times. IDYLS OF LABOUR. By JOHN GREGORY. London: Simpkin Marshall and Co. Again and again the Toiler has been the Poet, the Mechanic and the Muse have been one. Nor is this a thing of wonder. For the Poet needs to know, as the true workman ever does, what is the practical meaning of the life with whose mere seemings the indolent are content. Here are the Songs of a Son of Toil. They are every one of them healthy and strong. Many also of them are sweet and tender. Most of them are tuneful in rhythm as well as thought. They are full of a true Poet's love of nature in its manifold aspects, of man in his rights and wrongs, his joys, sorrows, shames, and nobilities, and of God, the God about whom the true Poet is, by inner compulsion, ever constrained to sing. "The St. Agnes' Workmans' Club," who are responsible for the publication in this form of their fellow member's poems, have shown at once a true discernment and a chivalrous pride. They think it will be a service to many to learn "what are the thoughts of a genuine Working Man and of many of his class." We should like to quote freely from this little book, but would rather persuade our readers to purchase it, so that as a literary venture it may be a complete success. The first and last verses of a piece of sixteen verses-called "New Year's Musings," run thus :— "Praise God from whom all blessings spring, To Love or Self, which shall we bow- "Do good, and break Self's iron rod; And Love shall bear us up to God.” Old Notation REACH&BARNICOTT, Bridport. Tonic Sol-Fa AND CHANTS. Book of Praise. 1 6 By the Late Rev. HENRY CRAIK. The Popery of Protestantism. 6d. Five Lectures on New Testament Church Order. 1s. 6d. The Hebrew Language, its History and Characteristics; including Improved Renderings of Select Passages in our Authorized Translation of the Old Testament. Second Edition. 2s. 6d. Principia Hebraica: An Easy Introduction to the Hebrew Language. 10s. 6d. Biblical Expositions, Lectures, Sketches of Sermons, New Rendering of the Song of Solomon, &c. 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. TUNES FOR THE FAMILY SELECTED BY S. D. MAJOR. AND CONGREGATION. (Compiler of the "Book of Praise.") 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