Let a European in some distant city in casual talk in the bazar mention the fact that he has lived at Benares, and at once voices will be raised to call down blessings on his head, for a dweller in Benares is of all men most blessed." It makes our own religious enthusiasm seem pale and cold.

Inasmuch as the life of religion is in the heart, not the head, Mr.Parker's touching picture seems to promise a sort of indefinite postponement of that funeral..