In His Adopted Daughter, by Agnes Giberne (John F. Shaw
and Co.), we have a favourable example of this author's well-known style. She contrasts very skilfully George Rutherford, the strong, calmly Christian man, and his weak, worrying, f nosy wife Dalcie, who, very early in their married life, stumble upon and adopt a child in a quiet Welsh valley. This child, Joan Brooke, becomes quite as limes. nary to Rutherford as his own daughter or his wife,—so much so, that his life is saved by her election to remain with him rather than to return to her mother, who is finally discovered. We have indicated the plot of this story, which has the great merit of simplicity. The conflict in the mind and heart of Marian Brooke when she finds out her daughter and yearns for her, only to discover that George Rutherford has hopelessly absorbed Joan's filial affection, is very ably and very delicately depicted.
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