A Fair Haven, and other Stories. By Mary H. Debenham.
(National Society. 2s. 6d.)—With these thirteen stories Miss Debenham completes the tale of fifty-two which, as she tells us, she undertook to write for Sunday evening reading. She has a wide field of choice: any theme that illustrates Church history and the Christian life is suitable, and she contrives to treat them all with good taste and an adequate knowledge. In the first she takes us to Little Gidding, where Lettice, the heroine, who has brought about a duel between her brother and an unsatisfactory admirer, finds refuge with the Ferrers ; in the second we find her again as the grandmother of an English family "in the Western Woods." Then we have a sight of King Alfred; and from him pass some three centuries to see his very contradictory among Kings upon the throne and England under an Interdict. So we are taken from time to time and from place to place, and always find ourselves in some well-pictured scene and among people who move and talk in a natural way.
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