6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 11

Job Simmons ; or, " I am Nothing." By the

Rev. F. T. Bramston. (W. Skeffington and Son.)—The picture of the clergy- man of Ardslow is a very attractive one, and would make almost any story readable. Mr. Bramston's plot we do not greatly admire. It seems hardly likely that Mr. Simmons, after being brought, even in part, under the ameliorating influences described, should have conceived and carried into effect the frightful revenge that is here described. A "good husband and father," who was never anything but sober, would hardly murder his landlord

because he had been turned out of the piece of ground on which he had squatted.