20 OCTOBER 1894, Page 23

From Ploughshare to Pulpit. By Gordon Stables. (J. Nisbet and

Co.)—The career of the farmer's son, who works at night to prepare himself for a bursary at Aberdeen, is one that is sure to commend itself to the true Scotch boy. Dr. Stables knows how to describe the life on a Highland farm, and to work a wholesome moral into a fresh and vigorous story. The latter part of the tale hardly interests us so much ; the writer is more at home in describing country life, pure and simple, and the trials of a young Scotchman on the threshold of life. Dr. Gordon Stables is as fresh, as entertaining, and as tactfully didactic as ever ; and we can heartily recommend From Ploughshare to Pulpit to all boys.