The Templeton Tradition. By Adam Gowans Whyte. (W. Blackwood and
Sons. 6s.)—This is an industrial story dealing, as the title indicates, with the family of Templeton, makers of engines in a country district near Glasgow. Mr. Richard Temple- ton, who is master of the works, contracts early in the book an unsatisfactory marriage, which, as the reader readily conjectures, turns out very well in the final chapter. There is also a subsidiary love-story connected with Henry Templeton, Richard's younger brother.; but the real interest is industrial, and the story of the strike in the Templeton Works is told in great detail- The results of Richard's quixotic experiment in offering money for the support of the strikers are for a long time most disastrous to him; but all turns out well in the end, though the author does not give his readers quite enough informa- tion as to the future of •the Templeton Works. The book is well written, but the device by which Harry and the young lady he is in love with are kept apart till the end is a little clumsy. The characters are lifelike, that of Harry Templeton being perhaps the best drawn ; and the whole novel is interesting and gives a good picture of upper-middle-class life in Scotland.
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