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and struggled so nobly that the man who had 

 wronged her at last returned to her to do right ! 

 The portraits of these three are very admirably 

 done, and old Mrs. Enticknapp, the Quaker, with 

 her aged and venerable assistants, carrying on her 

 old-fashioned baker's business in that quiet and 

 systematic way, is simply like a bit of delicious 

 sketching from life. The rich household of the 

 Prides, with its gaunt skeleton that cannot be con- 

 fined to a cupboard, but will walk out and challenge 

 sunlight and the gaze of the townspeople, in the 

 form of a drunken mother, who in the end is re- 

 vealed to us as nc wife is, sad to say, only too like 

 the style of things that goes on in large towns ; 

 but we are sorry for the rest of the Prides, and we 

 do pity Kate Pride, with her true woman's heart, 

 to the generous vein hid so sternly under hard 

 cynicism and now and then affected recklessness." 

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"A thoughtfully-written, if not very exciting or 

 absorbing story, and will be read with interest in 

 these times of commercial crashes and trade de- 

 pression. The materials out of which the novel 

 has been woven are of the slightest. There is 

 much sombreness in the tints, it is true, and Mr. 

 Garrett unflinchingly draws the thin skin off the 

 beauty of society, grapples the reader rigidly by 

 the shoulder and sternly says to him, ' Look on 

 that' Yet there is tenderness in the same hand, 

 practical generosity to the poor toilers, and sym- 

 pathy with the suffering, as well as an under current 

 of unbiassed religious feeling, which is as essential 

 to the story as sunlight to the world." Dundee 

 Advertiser, Jan. II, 1879. 



