Scarlea Grange. By Alfred Colbeck. (Religious Tract Society.) —This is
a very carefully constructed story of, the historical romance order, dealing with England in the early days of the Methodist movement, and of that curious body of " labour " conspirators who termed themselves Luddites. The heroine, Dorothy Harwood, is the daughter of a Luddite, and from the beginning of the story to near the end is filled with solicitude about her father. Fortunately she has a strong and eminently " straight " lover in the person of Jim Rouse, who manages every- body and everything in a sufficiently masterful manner, and all ends well. The tension of the plot is relieved by the love-affair —rather cool at the first—between Dorothy's friend and patroness, Nelly, and Trevelyan, who would if he could have been the suc- cessful rival of Jim Rouse. Religion is the pervading but not obtrusively dominating characteristic of what is beyond all doubt a really well-intentioned, well-constructed, and well-written story.
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