SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
Mader this Leading we notice such Book, of the week as have not bee. reserved for review in other forms.] In a Good Cause. By F. Anstey, Sir Gilbert Parker, Owen Seamiui, and Others. (John Murray. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains "stories and verses "—ten pieces in all—which are published for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children (Great Ormond .Street). Mr. F. Anstey's " Winnie" occupies something less than a half. It is a truly "hospital" story, giving us a very vivid picture of the place, of its little inmates, and of those who care for them. It tolls us also about the" Country Home," and we should have been sorry to miss the description, though a more dramatic ending would have been made if it had been concluded with the policeman scene, where father and mother are going home after the crisis is past. We would commend this book to our readers ; it is indeed "in a good cause," and it is good itself. This is how Mr. Owen Seaman puts the case :— .• NATURE'S WAY.
Each for himself, we live our lives apart, Heirs of an age that turns us into stone, Yet ever Nature, thrust from out the heart,
Comes back to claim her own..
Still we have something left of that fair seed God gave for birthright ; still the sound of tears Hurts us, and children in their helpless need
Still call to listening ears.
And so this Home that as its double care—
Childhood and pain—twice over makes appeal That in its task of love we too should share, Helping to guard and heal."
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