29 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 24

A Man's Mistake. By Minnie Worboise. (James Clarke and Co.)—This

is a very good story, with a rather conventional plot. A bright, high-spirited girl, Hyacinth Dell, is hampered with a bad father, and in consequence of her connection with him, she loses for a time the confidence of her employer, Clifford Armstrong, who is also her lover, and wishes to be her husband. Some of the secondary characters in A Man's Mistake—Silas Snowe, Hyacinth's second but disappointed lover, Paul Drury, a self-sacrificing missionary, and the two wonderful aunts, Kezia and Hephzibah —are exceptionally well drawn. Poor Hyacinth's difficulties about religious instruction and other matters indicate on the part of the author of A Man's Mistake, the possession of humour which is almost too much suppressed.