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Glenathole. By Cyril Grey. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The motto of

this tale, " Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel," seems to point out the unfortunate and infatuated Kenneth Errol as its hero ; but there are other characters which run him very close in that capacity. His elder brother Ronald, and the minister's son, Raymond Dunbar, are equally, if not more in- teresting. As the names indicate, the tale is a Scotch one, a sort of chronicle extending over some years of the doings and sufferings of a group of people all living in Glenathole ; and if there is nothing of the culmination of interest which characterises a very good story, there is, on the other hand, a total absence of the false sensationalism which marks a bad one. Altogether, though rather lengthened out, the book is ono which most young people would care to read, and which would do them good rather than harm, both as to literature and morals, and " spirituals " also, one might add, if such a word be permissible.