29 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 24

Least Said, Soonest Mended. By Agnes Gibeine. (Nisbet and Co.)

—Kitty Phrynne is the daughter of a station-master who dis- misses an honest fellow, ticket-collector at the station, who loves her, and cherishes a foolish attachment to an unprincipled man of a station somewhat superior to her own. Doubtless there are a number of silly girls who might learn a wholesome lesson from the story, which is told in a straightforward and effective way, if they could learn it at all. But few are taught by anything but experience, and not very many even by that.