Their Father's Wrong. By M. Bramston. (National Society.) —Miss Bramston
is evidently determined to make her stories " up-to-date." Dermot and Eileen Connor are the children of an Irish patriot, who becomes entangled in machinations of which he does not in his heart approve, and is told off to explode a charge of dynamite. Of this the children, who have been removed by the Court of Chancery from their father's charge, become aware by an accident, and they feel themselves bound to help the widow and children of the policeman killed by the explosion. The substance of the story is to be found in the narrative of how this help was given. They persuade their guardian to take the lodgings which the policeman's widow has to let. A good deal of quite unromantic trouble follows, but they try to do their duty and have their reward. The book may not be one of Miss Bramston's best, but it is considerably above the average of its kind.
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