The Mark of His Calling. By A. Allen Breckington. (Cassell
and Co. 6s.)—It is not everyone who would have the courage to choose such a hero as Gerald Fenton. For a long time he seems bound to fail, and, indeed, he shows himself somewhat weak and perverse; yet, somehow, he is made to grow upon us, and when we come to the end of his story, so far as it is told here, we find that he is not a failure after all. The career which opens before him is not a very grand one, but we feel that we have the right man in the right place. Gerald is a good study, but we are not sure that we do not like the two parsons—Charterleigh, the celibate, and Stanford, with all his kindly, humorous sense of life as he found it. Mr. Brockington is, indeed, very good in this line. The bishop's interview with Gerald—for ordination is one of his frus- trated plans—is excellent. And for a wonder—such has been the writer's experience—when a certain psalm and a certain lesson are mentioned as occurring in a service, we find the coincidence actually correct.
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