The Bright Kernel of Life. By Isabel Stuart Robson. (Jerrold
and Sons.)—This is a very well written tale, with omnia vincit amor for its moral. For indeed it is love that is the " kernel of life." (Surely "bright" is not exactly the right epithet for a kernel.) There are some very attractive figures among Miss Robson's dramatis persona. The characteristics of each are skil- fully kept up, and the sameness of the end—for all have to con. fess that it is not good for woman to live alone—ingeniously managed. The old bookseller is a peculiarly pathetic creation. Why, we may ask, " ZErated Bread " and moue ? " Einswith made a little moue."
We have received the yearly volume of The Fireside : a Pictorial Annual, conducted by the Rev. Charles Bullock, B.D. (Home Words Publishing Office); and Hand and Heart : a Family, Social, and Temperance Magazine, edited by H. Somerset Bullock, MA. (same publishers).—In a very useful series of little books pub- lished by George Nownes and Co. we have The Story of Geo- graphical Discovery, by Joseph Jacobs, and The Story of the Cotton Plant, by F. Wilkinson.
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