her grandfather, the cathedral organist, and a mischievous brother, who
is one of the ohoriaters, has certain adventures which she describes in her diary. Little girls, happily, do not write diaries,— at least, diaries that can fill up fair.sized octavo volumes. Still, we can overlook this improbability for the sake of the very readable book for which it furnishes the occasion. Miss Margery is a determined young person, and gives her guardians and friends a good deal of trouble, as when she plans a midnight visit to the churchyard to have as interview with her mother's spirit (this sorely is a little beyond the admitted limits of probability or improbability), or goes on a secret pilgrimage to get the water of a miraculous well. But she is good to read about, whatever she may have been to live with, and we are obliged to the author for o'lowiug us to make her acquaintance.
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