Tom's Heathen. By Josephine R. Baker. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The "
heathen " is an apparently respectable banker, who inspires in the heart of his minister a strange aversion, which, as it afterwards turns out, is justified by events that concern them both. The banker has, in fact, done a wrong that could not be reme- died to a near kinsman of the minister, the wrong being a bit of sharp practice in stock-dealing, the iniquity of which no man with any kind of conscience could have concealed from himself. It is quite im- possible that the banker should have ever deceived himself on this point. The interest of the story turns on the effort to make restitu- tion. There is some vigorous description here. Throughout, the characters are drawn with some subtlety, and the difficult subject of a " revival " is treated with discretion.
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