3 DECEMBER 1898, Page 27

Herbert Clutterbuck. By Arthur Canon. (S. P. C. IC.) —Herbert

Clutterbuck is left an orphan by his father's early death, and has to go out into the world from the pleasant home where, as it is well put, "there was never lack of anything, but always the sense of the divine necessity of work." There is nothing melodramatic about his career, no plot, for instance, of unprincipled associates whom he has scorned, to bring about his ruin—such things are not within ordinary experience—but he has real dangers and temptations, and gets through them in a sensible, manly way. When his experiences in the Old World begin to grow a little tame, he is considerate enough to go to the New, and we leave him secretary to a prosperous gold-mining company with another treasure "more precious than rubies."