... any risk of giving pain by my presence to any respectable shipowner who may have erroneously (as many have) thought that in speaking of a portion of the shipowners in the past I have spoken of the whole, and consequently of him. lam truly glad that reepectable ...

... before she dies. Of her daughter's two lovers and of many of the subordinate characters of the novel we have not space to speak. The plot is not a very probable one, but the story is rather prettily told, and the tone tliroughout is good and healthy. ...