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Davie Graham, Pitman. By Ramsay Guthrie. (R.T.S. is.)— This is

a good story of pit life, with which other interests are skilfully interwoven. Davie goes to College, for his tastes and intellectual powers mark him out for the ministry ; and then what seems a cruel necessity calls him back to a life of labour. How it all turns out, how Davie rises to a higher ministry than that to which the academical course would have led him, is well told.