No Choice. By the Rev. T. S. Millington. (Religious Tract
Society.)—The lesson that Mr. Millington seeks to enforce is that the only effective sanction to morality is religion. Mr. Newton-Earle is an amateur in astronomy, and his dabblings in science have led him to entertain doubts about the truth of Revelation. He is a prosperous and wealthy man, but a curious combination of circumstances puts him in a position of great difficulty, and exposes him to a very powerful temptation. The description of the way in which he meets this temptation is certainly effective, though we can imagine that it will be sharply criticised by those against whose ways of thought it is directed. The legal complication which perplexes Mr. Earle is happily imagined. He succeeds to the family estate, but finds that by an old settlement he thereby becomes incapable of holding the more valuable ,property belonging to the younger branch of the family. The love-story is not so happily conceived or so skilfully managed as the other part of the tale. In fact, Miss Earle is a singularly uninteresting heroine. Nor do we admire the funny German.
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