Miss Con ; or, All those Girls. By Agnes Giberne.
(J. Nisbet and Co.) —Agnes Giberne is too well known to require praise from us. But we must say how glad we are to get hold of a book that will help girls to become noble women. High thoughts are here expressed in language that will remain in the mind, and help those to remember that "they never are alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." Good and wise is the advice given to the girl just beginning to dwell on religions difficalties, that "the Evil One has no more subtle method of fighting than by setting Christiana to wrangle over their definitions of spiritual things." So also is the thought, "Nature never binders intercourse with God." The story is well told of the difficulty of governing a young family with the symbol of authority, but where the power exercised by love is wanting. The different dispositions and their temptations are well drawn. We are specially attracted by the clever Thyrza. Miss Giberne is not, we think, so successful in the character of men. They lack dignity. Sometimes we are inclined to doubt the "gentlewomanliness " of the heroine herself. Would that more would-be authoresses could read and profit by the ad- mirable advice, "Be a good girl, and mend your stockings."
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