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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 6892, 27 May 1891, Page 2

JLOWERFUL JNeW I&rORT. A PIT BROW LASSIE A STORY OF MINIM LIFE, BY J. JM.ONK X OSTBfi, Author of " A Poor Man's Tragedy," "The Moss Pit Mystery," "Judith's Romance," " For Love and Gold," &c, &c. We have pleasure in announcing that on Saturday KText, MAY 30th, Publication will commence in our columns of a Romantic Novel, dealing with Lancashire Mining Life, entitled, "A. PIT BROW LASSIE. The Story cannot fail to interest all classes of our Headers.

Since Mrs Francis Hodgson Burnett-wrote "That Lass o' Lowrie'e"—the heroine of which Story worked on the Pit Bank of a Lancashire Colliery—Pit Brow Women have ever been regarded with interest. They work hard for scanty pay, and their surroundings are the reverse of elevating; but this notwithstanding, they have given evidences individually of fine and noble character, and collectively of a unity of purpose which have commended enthusiastic admiration. The recent attendance of a Deputation, in working costume, before the Home Secretary in London, led to the withdrawal from a Mining Bill of a number of Clauses which would interfere with their calling. The Author of our new Story—J. MONK FOSTER —possesses literary skill of no mean order, combined with practical personal knowledge of all matters connectsd with mining life. His numerous stories have won approval by their vivid yet healthy realism, while his contributions on the mining industry generally have received prominence in the columns of the Nineteenth Century, Chambers' Journal, and other widely-read magazines, and have been noticed editorially in the columns of many newspapers at Home and abroad addressing mining or manufacturing constituencies.

"A PIT BROW LASSIE." OUTLINE OF THE PLOT. "A PIT BROW LASSIE" is a Story of Mining Life, dealing with the wooing and the winning of a beauteous and noble girl, who works at a colliery in Lancashire, her miner sweetheart being also a creation full of mauliness, power, and native heroism. The Plot or the Story turns upon the discovery that " The Pit Brow Lassie" is the niece of a rich bachelor, who had gone to Australia many years before, where he amassed a fortune unknown to his relatives—the heroine and her mother—who, having heard nothing 1 of him, think him dead. This uncle returns to England and commissions a lawyer to hunt up his relations. The task of finding the heroine and her mother is entrusted to a handsome, crafty young fellow, who quickly discovers them, but keeps his knowledge to himself, conceiving the idea of winning the "Pit Brow Lassie" fora wife, before she learns that she is the niece and probable heiress of her uncle. The heroine loves, and is loved, by an honest and noble young pitman, but the villain contrives, with the aid of a passionate, misguided woman, in parting them. A thrilling tableau is reached when he succeeds in carrying out his project, and marrying " A Pit Brow Lassie" himself. Other sensational incidents follow. A murder take* place; the pitman is arrested for the crime, triedj and sentenced to death. But, at the last moment, the heroine proves that her crafty husband is the murderer, and that her old lover is guiltless. Then all is cleared up, the culprit is punished, and the hero and heroine are happily united. The Story is full of action, and abounds with crisp dialogue. Interwoven with the Plot is a weird mine mystery.

THE OPENING OHAPTEKS OF THE MASTERLY AND THRILLING STORY, A Pit Brow Lassie, J. MONK . FOSTER, WILL APPEAR IN OUR COLUMNS ON SATURDAY NEXT, And a further Instalment will appear weekly to the close of the story.