12 DECEMBER 1891, Page 26

For King and Home. By Mary H. Debenham. (National Society.)—This

is a story of the rising in La Vendee. A brother and sister, who have French kindred, play important parts in it, but the heroine is the peasant-girl Etiennette, whose unselfish devotion is made the occasion of a truly pathetic story. Miss Debenham seems to have studied her subject with considerable care; but is she right when she speaks of "an extract from Mr. Pitt's speeches on the glorious future in store for France " ? Surely in 1792 Mr. Pitt was hardly enthusiastic about the future of France. Does she, by any accident, mean Mr. Fox ?