5 AUGUST 1893, Page 25

Claude Prescott. By Jas. E. Arnold. (Digby and Long.)—Here we

have the industrious and the idle apprentice going their ways and meeting with their appropriate reward. Of course, the in- dustrious one is slandered, and the father of his lady-love believes in the slander, and the lady-love herself refuses to believe, and all things come right, even the idle one shdwing, before he is disposed of, a certain redeeming quality.—Over the Waters, by Lieutenant F. T. Davis (same publishers), is a nautical tale which does not call for much notice, beyond the remark that the hero gets much more than he deserves. To reward such a fellow as Montague with the good things which Lieutenant Davis reserves for him is a little too much.