The Glory of the Sea. By Carley Dale. (Religious Tract
Society.) —Miss Crabbe, who is rightly described as an "eccentric lady," leaves her collection of shells to her god-daughter, with an instruction that her whole fortune is to go with it if the young lady, before attainiog her twenty-first birthday, "shall have, from pure love of the science, added twenty shells to the collection." This is the author's ingenious idea for interesting her readers in conohology. The question is, " Will Miss Poppy sell the collection ?"—for she is not to know of the conditions of the bequest. What happens, how the necessary thread of love is entwined with the plot, and how it is complicated by the curious abstraction of the chief ornament of the collection, a Gloria marls, our readers may discover for themselves. It will be understood that they will not discover it without imbibing a considerable amount of conchological knowledge. We must not forget a word of praise for the illustrations, executed by Mr. Charles Wlsymper.
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