4 MARCH 1893, Page 25

Cyrii's Promise. By W. J. Lacey. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—

Or a's Promise is a temperance story of perhaps rather more than the ordinary average of merit. The hero is Scotch, and the national character for religious steadfastness is brought forward in a boy who sticks to his pledge, and so apparently shuts himself out of a fortune obtained from the selling of wine. The moral, of course, is rather teetotal than temperance; but it is better so, not being meant for the perusal of temperate people.