A Padre in Partibus. By the Rov. George M. Reith, M.A. Reprinted from the Singapore Free Press.
Some of us no doubt read these delightful letters as they came out in the columns of the Singapore paper in which they first appeared, and to call them delightful isto do very scanty justice to them. Mr. Reith is a quick observer and an admirable writer, and his impressions make such charming reading that we look eagerly forward for another volume. This one deals with Java, the Eastern Archipelago, and Siam. " Mr. Reith has an inexhaustible fund of good stories which he introduces as aptly as.an American in an after-dinner speech, and if he is sometimes a little satirical, ho is never intentionally unkind. Those who have met the author will understand his remarks on priestcraft and theology on page 113; those who have never met him and have read these letters will long to make his acquaintance. We trust'soon to come across the second and third volumes of his Notes and Impressions. Next we come toa new novel "Liza of Lambeth. By William Someriet, Maughan, London: 'T. Fisher Univii. 1897.
Mr. Maughan has undoubtedly: intimate acquaintance with the "Arrids ani; Atriets of Lambeth, one of whom he tales
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