Living It Out. By H. M. Ward. (R.T.S. 2s.)—This is
a story of the breathless kind, as we may say. Nothing could be more persistent than the villainous activity of "Sugar Dick," except it is the heroic perseverance of "Jim." The first scene is somewhat farcical; but we soon find every one in deadly earnest. Possibly there are too many complications, but Living It Out is distinctly effective.—With this may be mentioned another story with plenty of incident, Philip Compton's Will, by Mrs. Harding Kelly (same publishers, is. (3d.) George Compton is guilty of great misdoing about his father's will of which he afterwards repents. There is no kind of objection to such tales ; but the effectively didactic stories are not of this sort. Few people forge or cancel wills, but there are minor errors without number which they commit.
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