a family circle, finishing with one which is, perhaps, the
most tragical of all, and hardly suited, we might imagine, to the audience, told by the vicar. Altogether, the stories are not exactly what we should expect from the title.—In the Blue Pike. By Georg Ebers. Translated by Mary J. Stafford. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This "romance of German civilisation at the commencement of the sixteenth century" is somewhat cumbrous in style, but worked out with the care and elaboration of detail which characterise the author. The principal personage is Knni, a rope-dancer, whose character and career are made into a study of considerable interest.—Nuthurst. By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts. (S.P.0 K.)—This is a tale of agricultural distress in England, a subject which the writer manifestly under- stands, and of how it may be compensated by prosperity else- where. It is a good tale, constructed on the old-fashioned lines to which one reverts with pleasure after a dose of the new fiction.
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