Book Review.

The CRIMSON board has received a very prettily-gotten up copy of "Jack, the Fisherman," Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' new story. Although it is a tale with a moral, it is one of the most powerful and interesting stories ever written. It is the life of a Gloucester fisherman who, inheriting a taste for rum, rapidly follows the downward course, and ends by killing his wife and himself, leaving a little child to face the world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even hardened men to it. Few can read such a story without being firmly convinced of the necessity of meeting the men of the lower class on their own ground, and making them realize the responsibilities of a home and the effects of that terrible curse, rum. Surely the cause of temperance can have no better ally than this little book. [Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston.]