17 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 38

A New Beginning. By Helen Shipton. (S.P.C.E.)—Here we have the

story of a young man who goes to the bad, and is brought back to better ways by the combined influences of a good parson who carries into his new profession the military habit of corn-

manding obedience which had belonged to him in the old, of a nice young woman, and of an accident which puts the hero where he cannot choose but hear what is good for him. It is a fairly good story, but does not exactly arrest the attention.