15 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 7

Worth While. By Annette Lyster. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)—We must own that

we liked the first half of this story better than we liked the second. Miss Lyster might have enforced the lessons and drawn the morals which she wishes to enforce and to draw with less of the painful element. But the same thing happens again and again. The plot seems to dominate the writer. But there are many good things in the book,—the development of Lucy Haughton's character among them.