17 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 41

Getting On. By Mrs. Newman. (S.P.C.K.)—The moral con- veyed by

this little story is,—If you have a healthy and congenial employment, do not forsake it for one more remunerative but less sure. The moral in point is conveyed by the adventures of a young carpenter to whom the acquisition of sudden fortune has suggested the possibility of bettering his position in London. He, however, loses his own and his mother's money in a bogus com- pany, and returns to his old occupation a wiser and a sadder man.