17 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 41

Ready, Aye Ready. By Agnes Giberne. (J. Nisbet and Co.)—

This time Miss Giberne has given us a plot of the very slightest description, a decided mistake. The characters to conceal such a defect must, to say the least, have a certain distinctness. This they do not possess, and hence there is nothing to interest the most unexacting of readers. Stories of this nature may have some slight value ; surely very little. The most that can be said for them is that they are perfectly harmless.