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Adventures of Johnny Pascoe. By G. Norway. (Nisbet.)—This is a

very gracefully and skilfully told story of the reclamation to civilisation of a little orphan boy, the child of a dissolute tramp. There is genuine power in the opening chapters, in which Johnnie Pascoe loses both father and mother, and in which his own moral struggle is minutely described. The contrast between Johnnie and his brother Bill, who inherits his father's vices, and who is past reformation, is brought out with really wonderful skill. The writer holds a brief, no doubt, for the religious influences which reclaim Johnnie, but yet too much is not made of these.