The Winds of Cathrigg. By Christabel Coleridge. Illustrated by Frances
Ewan. (Isbister and (lo. 6s.)—A novel of which the plot is laid among the lakes and mountains of the English North, and of which the first chapter introduces us to a lad who is running away from home after falling in love with a peasant and striking his own father, prepares the reader for develop.. ments in the manner of " Wuthering Heights." But Miss Christabel Coleridge follows the sober tradition of Miss Yonge rather than the revolutionary banner of the Bronte's, and she shapes her story so as to show how the elements of principle. breeding, and affection in a, family of good blood and stand- ing may win the day for common-sense in spite of hot tempers and misunderstandings. The hot-headed boy hero, flying from home to enlist, is overtaken by a railway accident, and thrown upon the hospitality of some charming middle-class people who keep a bookseller's shop in a country town. With them he learns the secret of home happiness, and when he returns to Cathrigg Fell, to inherit unexpectedly the property and the baronetcy, he is a wiser and a better man. Miss Coleridge is one of the small band of novelists who still write stories that are thoroughly wholesome and free from dangerous topics.
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