15 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 43

Through Thorny Paths. By F. A. McKenzie. (James Knapp.) —This

is after the usual style of temperance tales. The hero, if there is one, is either the sceptic or the reclaimed drunkard,—we are not sure which. It is a good little book, and better written than such effusions usually are; the moral is, of course, unexcep- tionable. It might very well interest men of the reclaimed drunkard's class, and therefore it has some value.