Cap'n Sinteon's Store. By George S. Wasson. (Gay and Bird.
6s. net.)—These thirteen papers are sketches of life in one of the little towns of the New England shore which are now left nearly as high and dry as our own Sandwich and Winchelsea. The "Store" is the village shop, and the stories are tales told there of a winter-night. We must own that we found them hard to understand, harder even than the " Wolf vine " dialect, for the key to that is in the lingo of "poker." And the point of the stories is not brought out clearly enough. This is true of most; there are exceptions, as "The Oakum Hill Ground." The "ground" is a spot where fish are to be found, an experience familiar to all who know anything of sea-fishing. Such spots are known by landmarks, which are brought into a certain relation to each other when the right place has been reached. In this case the whole countryside is so changed that the landmarks cannot be recognised. But even here the motive is scarcely adequate.
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