Books

Books Rhymes and Runesby Joseph Scarisbrick, is an original selection of tales and talks, in verse and prose, by the author. It is a book of 160 pages divided into three sections, the first, treating of and for childhood and youth; the second, things humorous; and the third, matters serious. In the book, some of the economic factors affecting the industrial position of Great Britain are referred to by the author as he remarks being old enough to remember the latter years of the Victorian period "when," as he expresses it, "our character was high and prosperity considerable." His inference in all cases where such reference is made is, that that period was rich in much that the British empire has now lost and which it will have to regain if it is to prosper once more. We think these references are much superior in value to the humorous division, which for Americans, is rather slow.