“This is a second edition of Mr Ritchie’s smart little sketches taken from the life of the most noted metropolitan preachers. The outline is bold, rather than minute and diffuse; now and then character is seized with remarkable fidelity; whilst the genial spirit which generally pervades the volume takes from occasional passages approaching censure anything like the sting of bitterness. There is scarcely a page that does not give the reader faith in the sincerity of the writer.”—_Manchester Examiner and Times_. “His sketches are characterized by a boldness, freedom, and vigour, which are rarely to be met with in works of that class. He is no hero-worshipper, but he shows that he has a keen appreciation of the higher forms of pulpit eloquence.” _The People_. * * * * * LONDON: WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND. Footnotes: {194} The Chelsea vestry complained of Cremorne, because it injured the property in the neighbourhood;—the defence was, that Mr Simpson had spent £30,000 or £40,000 upon it; that he had given £1200 to the Wellington fund, and £300—the profits of one night’s entertainment—to the fund for the relief of the victims of the Indian mutiny.