5 DECEMBER 1896, Page 11

the reader will be inclined to shut up the book,

or to relieve it by peeping at the end. We may advise the doubtful to persevere. They will find a capital little story, with a very wholesome pur- pose, not too obtrusively put. The little wood-carver, Jesse Piggott, is a most interesting person. We should like to know whether the technical education classes, to which so much public money is now given, help in any appreciable degree to bring these latent geniuses into the light.