25 DECEMBER 1886, Page 23

Not Thrown Away, but Given. By Mrs. G. S. Heaney.

(Nelson and Sons.) —We have seen better things than this from Mrs. Reaney:s pen. We may call it a love-story with a purpose, partly religious and more strongly teetotal. Marion was quite justified in preferring Conrad Tracey to Bernard Braintree ; but if she was going to reject Bernard, she had no business to give him so severe a lecture on his trade of brewing.