His Angel. By Henry Herman. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is
a spirited story. Daniel Kershaw, a millionaire from the American West, comes into relation with a young man who is coming from the same country eastward in the hopes of making his fortune. To put the difficulty very briefly : the young man is the son of a peculiarly bad sort of villain, and has the millstone of his parentage around his neck, a very heavy weight when he comes to love Kershaw's daughter. The reader, however, knows her not to be the daughter, but the child of a father no better than her lover's. Of course it is only fair that the family inheri- tance should not be a lasting bar either on one side or the other. How the tangled skein is smoothed out makes the subject of an exciting tale, the Rev. Gideon Carey being perhaps the best of the characters who bring the little drama to a close.
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