11 DECEMBER 1886, Page 17

Young Ishmael Conway. By "E. A. B. D." (J. F.

Shaw.)— Ishmael, so named in a grim joke by his father, is a powerful sketch of character, uncommon, indeed, but not, we should say, impossible. He is fierce, intractable, even savage, bat he is resolute ; and force of will, once tarried into a right course, is a saving power. Ishmael, thanks to the philanthropic efforts of a young German, and also to a certain honest desire on his own part to stand by the weak, is brought into the right way, and, once in it, perseveres.