The Seed She Sowed. By Emma Leslie. (Blackie.)—This is an
attempt, and on the whole a successful attempt, to utilise the great Dock Strike in the interests of sound Christian teaching. Brown and Chaplin may be taken as fairly typical workmen of the class likely to be involved in a strike, and their womankind are worthy of them. Rutter, as a remorseless landlord, bent on having his rent at all hazards, is rather repulsive ; although, when that is conceded, it may be doubted if such a girl as Annie Brown, who is the trite heroine of the story, would have assaulted him in the somewhat barmaidish way that she does. It mast at the same time be allowed that low-class life in London is realisti- cally reproduced, and although the purpose of the writer of this story is plain, it is not obtruded too much. At the same time, one is glad to escape in the end from London into country air.
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