31 DECEMBER 1887, Page 24

Tack the Fisherman. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. (Chatto and Winclos.)—This

is a powerful little tale, in which Miss Phelps seeks her subject, as she has lately done more than once, in the fishermen's life at " Fairlsarbor," a New England village. The story is tragic in the extreme. Bat the horror is touched with a delicate band. No one but must be the better for reading Jack the Fisherman,