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Sunday Verses, by Joseph Truman (Macintosh), are ambitions in style,

and not without a certain vigour of language ; but we cannot go further in praise. Granny's Tale, by Harr jet Cave, is very poor stuff indeed The Harvest, an Allegory, by Mrs. Frederic Granville (Longmans), is. fairly well written, but does not overcome the difficulty which besets compositions of this kind. The Christian may well be represented by the figure of a man cultivating a field. But then we must not have the man spoken of as praying. Prayer, like other Christian duties, must be- set forth by something which seems to answer to it in the labourer's life. G randmother's Nest, by E. a O'Reilly (Saunders and Otley), is prettily written, but, seeing that it is meant for children, needlessly sad.