A Daughter of the Pit. By Margaret Doyle Jackson. (Cassell
and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Jackson gives us in this book skilful combina- tions of interests. A young American comes over to an English colliery with the idea of introducing a coal-cutting machine. Thus we have the subject, always capable of effective develop- ment, of the quarrel between labour and labour-saving machinery. In the transaction of his business the visitor makes the acquaintance of various inhabitants of the mining town, among them the heroine, who is the " Daughter of the Pit," though she follows the more feminine employment of a school-teacher. This love-story, as well as the others which are more or less con- nected with it, is told in a very attractive way. The tragical element is supplied by a great accident in the mine, one full of old workings, with a fiery atmosphere. This gives occasion for a very graphic description, as good a thing in its way as we have seen.
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