In Safe Hands. By M. H. Howell. (Warne and Co.)—Miss
Howell's tale is penetrated throughout with a religious spirit. If all the expressions that it takes are not exactly to our taste, yet we gladly acknowledge the wise self-restraint, always remote from extravagance, which controls them. Joy is a very pleasant person to read about, and, one would hope, improving also. We may feel a little doubtful whether in real life her spiritual influence could have been so great as it is in Miss Howell's tale. Her success with Mr. and Mrs. Rothmer was in itself an experience of the very rarest. But it would be un- gracious to criticise on this score a really excellent story. We praise it with the less reserve because the sentimental element is kept in the background. No one will object to the two or three pages which are conceded to it in the last chapter.
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