15 SEPTEMBER 1877, Page 22

Seed-Time and Reaping. By Helen Paterson. ( Samuel Tinsloy. ) — This tale

is a very mild mixture of religion and love. If it is not exactly what we expect to find under these crimson covers, which so often m cover much ore stimulating food, we have no reason to complain. The book will do no one any harm ; it is quite possible that it may do good, If it had been about a quarter of the size, we should have had nothing but good to say about it.