The Doctor's Dozen. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—Dr.
Inglehurst, a prosperous practi- tioner in a Midland town, is mortally injured in a railway accident, and leaves his twelve children insufficiently provided for. The family, which comprises three grown-up sons living at home, reckon up their resources, and find that they have six hundred a year to live upon. (Among these resources, compensation from the company is not reckoned, we observe ; yet, as the accident arose from the down-train "taking sharp curves at too high a speed," it was clearly liable, and would have had to pay a heavy sum for a medical practitioner earning two thousand a year.) The task of making both ends meet is found very difficult, in spite of the zeal and self-sacrifice of various members of the household. But a marvellous succession of events helps them out of the diffi- culty. There is certainly merit in the story ; the character of Dar, in particular, is well drawn, but we do not quite like it. Surely this income in a house for which no rent was paid ought not to have been found so insufficient.
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