The Silver Mine. By Esme Stuart. (National Society.)—The scene of
this "underground story," as the alternative title has it, is laid on the Cornwall coast, and the principal characters are two boys and a girl. The father of two of them, one of the boys and the girl, has not married the woman he wanted to marry, and his children make friends with the son of the old love, and the mine is worked by a greedy miser, the father of the lady who had not the courage to stick to her lover. How the feud and the trouble caused by the mine affect these children, is told in a story of moderate length and moderate excellence. It is not at all up to the standard of Esme Stuart's work ; we can speak neither in praise nor dispraise ; but the whole sadly lacks vitality, and this is more evident in that we unconsciously compare it with the wildness of the locality.
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