23 NOVEMBER 1872, Page 22

Loves and Lives : an Unfinished Stm7. By Ellis Ainsley.

(Whittaker.) —The "unfinished story" only wants the formal ending. We can guess that the hero will be made happy, though he has not a sixpence of his own, and does not seem to have any very clear idea how he is to earn one. The tale is meant to point the contrast between the effect of a stern, loveless teaching of religion, and of that which comes out from a heart full of sympathy and kindness. The clever hero, driven into unbelief by a Calvinistic father, is brought back to faith by wiser and gentler counsels. This notion is sufficiently well worked out, and the indispensable love story is not ungraceful.