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it. The advent of this lady's niece, a charming girl who comes on 

 a visit and by her presence transforms everything, introduces the 

 element of romance, and is the prelude to a story of first love, 

 really the central theme of the book. We follow the hero through 

 his schooldays and on to the beginning of his career. The scene 

 shifts between town and country, and the reader is introduced to a 

 variety of characters drawn from different classes of life. The 

 treatment is realistic alike in the country scenes and in those which 

 take place in the unprosperous stationer's shop in the city. 



THE SOUL OF UNREST. 



By EMILY JENKINSON, 



AUTHOR OF " SILVERWOOL," ETC. 



In her new book, " The Soul of Unrest," Miss Jenkinson amply 

 fulfills the promise shown in her first novel, " Silverwool," which 

 was so favourably received by the public two years ago. Here 

 once again the author delineates her various characters with great 

 sympathy and understanding, while her descriptions of their environ- 

 ment is marked by that quiet strength and charm which so 

 distinguished her earlier work. Bride Kilbride, the last of her race, 

 the heir of all its wild past, lives with her father Ninian in the island 

 of Inis-Glora, off the west coast of Scotland. When one day his 

 two sons are drowned, Ninian, in an agony of spiritual revolt, tears 

 down St. Columba's wooden cross that stands on a local eminence, 

 and is forced to leave the island. He joins Robert Yewdale, an 

 enthusiastic social reformer, and devotes his energies to the regener- 

 ation of the slum-inhabitants of the factory town of Northington. 

 Here presently his daughter joins him, and the gradual dawn of 

 mutual love in the hearts of Bride and Yewdale is admirably and 

 exquisitely described. Yewdale stands as a Labour candidate at 

 the general election, and is defeated by Sir Simon Rewley, a wealthy 

 land-owner who has seduced Yewdale's sister. He proposes to lead 

 a band of "hunger-marchers" to London, to lay their grievances 

 before the King ; but his followers get out of hand and burn down 

 Rewley's country seat. Yewdale is sentenced to a long term of 

 imprisonment, and Bride returns to await his release at Inis-Glora, 

 where Ninian finds peace, and with his own hands constructs and 

 erects a cross in the place of the one he demolished. While the 

 author shows by her descriptions of the West Highlands how 

 sensitive she is to the beauties of Nature, the vivid pictures she 

 presents of slum-life in a manufacturing town prove with what sym- 

 pathetic care she must have studied the social problems that every- 

 where confront us. " The Soul of Unrest " is a book that should 

 interest as well as charm the reader, and will undoubtedly add very 

 considerably to its author's reputation. 



