Harold's New Creed. By the Rev. R. G. Beans, B.A.,
and Edith C. Kenyon. (Religious Tract Society.)—Harold Brown falls away from the belief in which he had been brought up, and finds the new belief which he has adopted—a belief which may be described as a theory that morality can stand very well without religious sanction—fail him in the hour of trial. This purpose is worked into a story of a somewhat improbable kind. A dying mother hands over one of her twin-children to the care of some good people, who are almost strangers to her, in order to get him out of the way of a sceptical uncle ; the other, a girl, she is content to leave. Complications of course ensue, and we have the old mis- understanding, almost worn out by this time as one of the " properties " of fiction, of a man mistaking his friend's sister for his friend's fiancee. "'Esther is my —' The rest was lost, for in a moment Harold shrieked, Your wife, villain !' " and knocks him into the river. That strikes us as a little crude.
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