24 OCTOBER 1891, Page 21

Work, Wait, Win. By Ruth Lamb. (Nisbet and Co.)—A pleasant,

wholesome story, which per haps would have been better told in the third person. John Simpson finds at the age of six- teen that he has just £500 in the world, his father having lost in speculation the property to which he had naturally looked forward. He faces the facts, gets a place at a railway-station as ticket-clerk, rises in process of time till he becomes station- master, and—but why pursue the story ? Our readers will not find the time unpleasantly spent, if they discover the end for themselves. We may tell them that there is a wealthy old cousin, a single old lady of eccentric ways, somewhat caricatured, by-the- way, we think. With such a dea ex nvschind at hand, it is possible that things turn out well.