Duty Wins. By Joseph Forster. (Biggs and Debenham.)— This story
forcibly recalls the old familiar one of Joseph and his brethren ; and the meting out of wealth and earthly happiness to the good, and misery and poverty to the bad personages, is quite in the Old Testament spirit. Then the good people are so much better, and the bad people so much worse, than -most of our fellow- creatures, that we feel inclined to quarrel with both; while yet there is so much loveable good sense somewhat naively expressed throughout the book, that we lay it down feeling that our laugh over the old sailor's racy apeechifyings has repaid us for the didactic tone of the conversation of the other characters. Still,
we think young readers will be tempted to skip the excellent remarks even of the lovely Clara and the handsome Charles. If there were more people like the old Captain, whose actions are even better than his words, the world would indeed be a different place.
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