Norman Reid, M.A. By Jessie Patrick Findlay. (Oliphant, Anderson, and
Ferrier.)—Mr. Norman Reid is the minister of -" Free St. John's" in a Scotch town. Here he has to do with a self-sufficient, purse-proud elder, who has been accustomed to have everything his own way, and who greatly resents the independ- ence of the new minister. This might have furnished subject enough. We must own to not caring much for the complications which Miss Findlay has introduced into her plot. The elder turns out to have a past which he is very much ashamed of, and with this past Mr. Norman Reid, M.A.—(why M.A. P—the distinc- tion, if it may be so called, has nothing in the world to do with the story)—is closely connected. Another connection of the elder is the young lady with whom the minister is in love, but who has preferred an artistic career and the prospect of fame, to the hope of domestic happiness. All these coincidences are extremely un- likely, and do not improve, to say the least, a story which has no inconsiderable merit.
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