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Cairnforth and Sons. By Helen Slaipton. (S.P.C.K.)—The hero of this

story is a young man who has newly come into the position of chief shareholder in the manufacturing company of " Cairnforth and Sons," and feels that he owes something to the workmen from whom he derives his wealth. He visits the town where the factories are situate, and in concert with a clergyman of the right sort, sets to work. His difficulties, his discouragements, and hopes, his failures and successes, are vividly described. Of coarse, there is a love-story, which is cleverly interwoven with the main subject of the book.