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 Minor Notices 177 concerning which com[)aratively little is known. The other papers are of less worth because they treat of more familiar subjects ; but altogether, Mr. Severance may be congratulated on having accomplished in a very satisfactory way the task he marked out for himself. WiLKRKD H. MUNRO. Lights and Shado7t)s of a Long Episcopate, being Reminiscences and Recollections of the Right Reverend Henry Benjamin Whipple, D. D., LL.D., Bishop of Minnesota. (Macmillan, pp. vi, 576). This volume, whose appearance haS been eagerly awaited, and which comes at the re- quest of many friends, is a most welcome addition to American liter- ature. It is the record of a varied and important life filled with heroic deeds and Christian charity. Bishop Whipple has had a wide and inti- mate acquaintance with the greatest statesmen, ecclesiastics and men of affairs in this country and abroad, and this book brings us into close touch with many of them, filled as it is with copies of autograph letters on most important subjects, and with interesting anecdotes of wit and wisdom. In his ecclesiastical affairs Bishop Whipple, the pioneer Bishop of Minnesota, consecrated in 1859, shows the large charity and wide com- prehensiveness of a true-hearted Christian, together with a wise, far- sighted administrative ability literally fulfilling Christ's injunction : " Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." His diocesan seal, which adorns the cover of his book, is singularly appropriate and suggestive ; it is a peace-pipe crossing a broken tomahawk, and, just above it, the cross. The motto is: " Pax per sanguinem crucis." To the historian, the chief interest centres about his great achieve- ments in the cause of education and his grand work among the Indians. On the high bluff which skirts the beautiful little city of Faribault, Minnesota, besides state institutions for the deaf and dumb, the blind and feeble-minded, are three large groups of buildings known as Bishop Whipple's schools. These are the Shattuck Military School for boys, with probably the finest group of school buildings in the United States, St. Mary's Hall, a school for girls, and the Seabury Divinity School for theological students. When John Walter, M.P., proprietor of the Lon- don Times, visited this country, he was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to visit these schools. On his return to Philadelphia from the West, he was asked by George W. Childs what had impressed him most. He replied: "The schools of Bishop Whipple in Faribault." To one who has seen them it is not surprising. This volume has among its illustrations, views of the fine buildings. Bishop Whipple signifi- cantly says : "On the site of the beautiful Shumway Memorial Chapel " (a perfect gem of architecture in the magnificent grounds of Shattuck School) " I witnessed a scalp dance in i860." Bishop Whipple's marvellous work among the Indians, so simply and graphically, yet so fascinatingly told in this book, will remain not only one of the most romantic and beautiful chapters in American history, but VOL. VI — 12