A Nurse's Bequeat—by Lillias Hamilton, xp. London 1908. John Mur- Peop It often has to be claimed for a novel vith " parpose that to be read it mast be allowed to preach. 4 Nurse'
is a novel with a parpose; bat it happily succeeds in attaining its end rritha minimum of preaching. In other words it will be read with abundant interest on its own merits as a novel, andthe disquisitions of Nurse Kennedy fall into place s0 easily as a part of the story and tre themselves so interesting for the criticism which they offer on one of the sratest problems of the aye that there is never any offensive feeling in the rader's mind that the nurse or her creator is getting into a pulpit. How far it might be possible to find a healthy futare for the maimed and the blind of by taking them in childhood and educating them on industrial farms in Canada is not for us to discuss here.
To the argument that such an experiment would be arbitrary, even high handed, Nurse Kennedy replies with justice thit the evil has grown too large to be bande ty kid glove methods. For what would become of the children in after life she cares less, becatise she has no anxiety provided only they turned into' strong men and women able to do some one useful thing well. Her scheme certainly sounds convincing. Apart from the sociology of the book there is a good story, with descriptions of life in a workhouse hospital which could hardly be
should like to make. Why should bettered. 'There is but one nebjotion we Peg's lover's name be Erb?-No doubt it' was pronounced differently in his own native Germany. But it sounds pre-pesterously like the familiar abbreviation by which one of Peg's patients would have addressed another who had been christened Herbert.
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