Life in a Nutshell. By Agnes Giberne. (John F. Shaw
and Co.) —This is an exceedingly quiet, well-told story of its kind, prac- tically destitute of incident, and almost destitute of character. A Norfolkshire country clergyman finds it necessary for the sake of his health to go abroad and leave his unsophisticated, eighteen- year-old daughter in the hands of cousins. Katie Balfour does a great deal of good of one kind and another to her kinsfolk,—in particular to the fragile Grace and the impulsive Kath. Then the inevitable good young man, Harold by name, comes into Katie's life ; and her father returns from the Continent to take a living in Devonshire, and to see his daughter all but drowned. This is all. But the story, such as it is is well told, and Mrs. Carrington, a guardian angel in the shape of a very strong woman, is admirably drawn.
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