Hawbrook Farm, by Laura M. Lane (S ), resembles, in
many respects, "Equal to the Occasion," although it contains a greater number and variety of characters. Miler Gaunt is just such another as Chrissy Miller, and after a period of governessing, combated, however, under more than ordinarily agreeable circum- stances, finds her happiness in the arms of honest Farmer Talbot, who has succeeded her father as tenant of Hawbrook Farm, and who saves her life. Esther is for a time annoyed with a human gadfly in the shape of a female gossip, and is, besides, troubled by selfish sisters. This gossip, Mrs. Peckham by name, and Esther's coarse- grained brother-in-law, a commercial traveller named Wild, are very cleverly sketched indeed. Mrs. (7) Lane has evidently written this story with a view to promoting co-operative farming, bat she does not thrust her economic theories unduly upon her readers.
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