Dan's Little Girl. By Jessie Armstrong. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is
an exceptionally strong story of the moral assistance given to a young fisherman by a little girl-cousin who is almost literally thrown on his hands. Dan Carter, who is saved from drinking and gambling, and going to the bad generally, after the manner of his uncle Tom, is a very good sketch of the young man who might be expected to be found in such a place as Sandy- 'cove; while Tom, his uncle, is the typically bad lot who keeps the bad public-house, and, not content with ruining others, ruins him- self by gambling. Both Temperance and evangelical religion are introduced into the story, and with success; and they are none the worse that they are imported into Sandycove from London by a sensible clergyman. But moral proselytising, even in the case of Myles Turner, who "takes the pledge," is subordinated to the study of human nature,—especially of such human nature as is to be found in Dan and the two girls, Lily and Meg, the latter of
whom Dan marries. Altogether, this story is very much above the average of the class of literature to which it belongs.
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