Harold's Friends. By C. A. Burnaby. (Religious Tract Society.) —We
wish that Miss Burnaby and those who think with her could find some other way of commending the cause that they have at heart to the sympathies of their readers. To have serious thoughts about religion, is a temper of mind which it is desirable to produce ; but we do not feel that Miss Burnaby goes the right way to work. We can quite believe that Marion Oakley was right in thinking that her way of life was frivolous ; yet there is a mean between frivolity and a morose retreat from the world, which she and her spiritual adviser do not appear to have recog- nised. The incident of the death of a partner in the ball-room, is one which does not commend itself to a judicious taste. There is not the same objection to the occurrence by which the writer complicates her plot; but the kidnapping of two active lads such as Harold Oakley and Bob Denby is, to say the least, somewhat
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