16 OCTOBER 1886, Page 26

Eleanor's Ambition. By Sargon C. J. Ingham. (Wesleyan Methodist Sunday

School Union.)—This is a short, very slight, and very uninteresting tale of a young lady, who is prevailed upon to give up her ambition of passing an examination in order to take part in domestic duties. We should have supposed that the two might have been combined with a little management. The tale is not re- deemed by merits of any other kind. Theology such as "God is not bound by his own laws," Ice. (p. 66), could well be spared. In the same page we are informed that "Life's a song of degrees," and in he same chapter, "that it was tortuous to have such shy subjects dis- cussed ;" in the next, "infer" is used in the sense of "imply."