The Little Garden of Roses

IT is a matter for wonder, that so few of the works of the Thomas a Kempis are known to the English reader; and this the more, that they all breathe the same meek and warm spirit of piety and devotion we meet with in that golden book attributed so popularly to his name, and this moreover to such an extent, that it is difficult to believe that there should ever have been any hardy enough to deny, that the author of these, and of "The Imitation of Christ," were identical. Into this controversy, which, like too many others, has given rise to much unseemly bitterness, we have no desire to enter, as such a theme would be unfitting and disproportionate both to the Spirt and size of this little volume.