The Way and the Will. By Andrew Home. (Religious Tract
Society.)—This is a fairly well-written, well-constructed, easy- flowing story of a conventional kind. Roger Price, a self-made man, adopts the son of George Ciunberland, one of his clerks who, by his own malpractices, has brought himself to ruin. The lad is brought up in ignorance of his father's existence ; but when he accidentally hears of it, rushes to his parent's help, even although it costs him a rupture with his benefactor. Being, however, a lad of energy and almost of genius, he prospers in business and in love, while Price comes to grief. Although there is not much originality in the plot of The Way and the Will, several of the characters—more particularly Price's daughter and the old clerk whom that broken-down Bounderby has latterly to lean on—are powerfully sketched.
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