Going to the Dogs. By A. S. Roe. (Virtue Brothers
and Co.)—The history of a young man educated at the University, but brought up to no profession, mainly through the foolish pride of his mother. His father loses his property and dies, and Frank of course gradually goes to the dogs. He even sinks so low as to commit fraud and be brought before a magistrate. But he is at last found in a workhouse, and kept in respectability during his old age by a relative whom his testimony has restored to legitimacy and a large fortune. We are not going to fore- stal Mr. Roe by telling how all this comes to pass, but we think his excellent moral would have been bettor enforced if Frank had been either loss unfortunate or less culpable. So good a fellow as Frank would not have fallen so low as to commit crime, and to bring him to such a pass as that mainly through the errors of other people is a sin against poetical justice.
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