The Panelled House. By M. Branaston. (Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge.)—There is a great deal of quiet beauty in this story. It is a tale of still life ; but still waters proverbially run deep_ The little legend told by "Nest " (one of her earliest efforts at author- ship) is so delightful that we hope the authoress may have many more such to put into the mouths of her heroines. The sketching is some- what minute, but it is perfect of its kind. "Girls like Nest [who is shortsighted in her mind, and lives a very quiet life in a remote village] End when they grow a little older, like the hen who took pity on the ugly duckling, that the world is larger than they thought, and takes in all the next field." For ourselves, we can only say many a book of far more pretension has failed to interest us as the fortunes of Winifred Williams and Estcourt Armyn have done.
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