27 DECEMBER 1890, Page 23

Job Carson's Portrait Gallery. By Lucretia Maybury. (W. P. Nimmo,

Hay, and Co., Edinburgh.)—This is a story of the mildly sensational kind, in which a waif is found to be the lost child of a titled lady. There are benevolent people, serious people, and wicked people in it, and everything happens as it should ; but we must say that tales that have so unreal a look about them do not approve themselves to our taste and judgment.