Another Man's Money. By David Lyall. (R.T.S. 35. 6d.)—This story
is republished from the Quiver. Patrick Chisholm manages the estate of Tomnagarrich for his cousin Captain Drummond. Chisholm is a shrewd man of business; Drummond is somewhat easygoing, content, for the most part, to leave things in his factor's hands, but now and then waking up to a sense of responsi- bility. Then there is a certain Moira McNeill, daughter of the doctor who looks after the health of the region, and both men love her. Finally, Captain Drummond goes out to join his regiment in South Africa, and disappears. We must not follow the story any further. It is skilfully constructed, and shows the power of character-drawing which we are accustomed to expect from "David Lyall." He has a way of interesting us in the people whom he creates, and, what is more, of making us believe in them. The volume is completed by a shorter story, "The Pharisee." Sir Richard Cardrew is hardly as convincing as "David Lynn's" aersonages commonly are. It would be wrong to deny that such changes as that which is worked in Cardrew through the per- sonality of Duncan Haldane are impossible, but we are somehow disinclined to be convinced when we see them portrayed within the compass of a hundred pages or so. In other respects, the story is a good one. The minister, Duncan Haldane, is a fine figure.—The Bells of Port knockie, by the same author (Hodder and Stoughton, Os.), is a collection of short stories, which are even better in quality than the volume mentioned above. They are very well told indeed. Perhaps "A Scotch Husband" is the best of them ; but all are good.
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