IV.—DISCUSSIONS AND DIGRESSIONS

Catholicism and Happiness—Life Living Creatures—Christian

and Romantic—On Pan-cakes and Pan-pipes—Christmas Beer in

Workhouses—Arts and Mysteries.

‘Whether he gossips of beautiful words, or the names of

flowers, or old-fashioned phrases, or Catholicism and

happiness, or the ox and the ass of the Nativity, or birds in

Christian legend and symbol, or thrift on 15s. per week, he

gives one the impression of a real good sort; a parson who is

also a scholar. Men are scarce; and so are good books. Here is

a good book by a man.’—_Sunday Chronicle._

=A Modern Outlook. Studies of English and American Tendencies.= _By_ J.

A. HOBSON. Crown 8vo. =5s. net.=

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