30 SEPTEMBER 1893, Page 24

Sweetheart Glen. By William Tirebuck. (Longmans.)—This is a realistic picture

of a boy's life in Wales. Mr. Tirebuck observes closely, and can describe. Nor is he unacquainted, it is clear, with Welsh manners. But there is a suggestion throughout of something not at all to our taste. No modest boy or girl would

be the better for reading it ; nor can we fancy a grown-up person with unvitiated tastes liking it.