15 DECEMBER 1883, Page 22

The Cabin on the Beach. By M. C. Winchester. (Seeley

and Co.) —Miss Winchester always writes well, but she is scarcely at her best in this story. The characters and the plot are more of the con- ventional sort that we are accustomed to find in fiction of this sort, and have less reality than we now expect in Miss Winchester's books. The cause which produces the difficulty of the story seems hardly adequate, nor does the conduct of the lad who gets the young hero into trouble seem quite consistent with what we are led to expect of his character.