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me Wealth of Mallerstang. By Algernon Gissing. (Chatto and Windus.

6s.)—This story is written in a somewhat rugged and abrupt manner, suited, however, to the character of the Yorkshire dalesmen and of the country "where the wild wind blows on the mountain side." The book goes back to the beginning of the nineteenth century, that time of splendid visions but terrible realities, and tells something of the struggle going on between poverty and wealth. The plot is eon. dlicale 1 by the will of Mr. Thorpe, a business connection of a successful manufacturer named Garrett, whose mind was so influ- enced by the romantic literature of the time that he arranged that his son and niece should be brought together in a manner worthy of a devoted reader of Scott and the Border ballads.