The Web of an Old Weaver. Given in by J.
Beighley Snowden. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This story by the very able author of "Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds " is one of the best "local" stories, not too heavily burdened with dialect, that we have read for a long time. It is a plain tale of a weaver in Cragside, Yorkshire, and of how he wove and courted and poached and shot a man, and how he got off after all, and married, and was happy ever afterwards. It is all very simple,. but here and there exquisitely pathetic on account of its very simplicity. There is not a character in it that is not carefully sketched. Jem himself and the faithful Liazie make an admirable couple, while the contrast between Weasel, the poacher, and Binnie Driver, the wise evangelist, is almost as skilful as any- thing that has appeared in recent fiction.
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