2 DECEMBER 1893, Page 11

Brave Bessie Westland. By Emma Leslie. (Religious Tract Society.)—This "Story

of Quaker Persecution" is well conceived and well written. There is a good contrast between the temperate Mistress Drayton and the fierce partisan who is the heroine of the story,—one not unable to find edification oven in a "steeple- house," the other regarding everything that was not according to "Friends" pattern as an abomination. The breadth of view which Miss Leslie shows in her story is worthy of all praise.