2 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 42

Fairmeadows Farm. By Mary H. Debenham. (National Society.) —This is

a story of two hundred years ago, of the days when a good many people were looking to "King Monmouth" as the hope of Protestantism. A coach accident—we presume that Miss Debenham has satisfied herself of the probability of the incident —brings into the house of Farmer Maury, a yeoman cultivating his own land between Southampton and Winchester, a stranger, Gabrielle by name. He receives her with all hospitality, and so gains the blessing of hospitality, that he entertains an angel un- awares. The story of how this is brought about is told in a very effective way. The troubled politics of the times are made to accentuate the interest of the tale, which is certainly of more than average merit.