The Forlorn Hope. By " A. L. 0. E." (T. Nelson
and Sons.)— This is an interesting story of the United States in the time of Lloyd Garrison. Indeed, Garrison, in his character of journalist and politician, is in a sense its hero, although it is a British and not an American girl, filled with the enthusiasm of Abolition, who is the heroine of it. Gloria is, indeed, an excellent sketch of a high-spirited English girl, who takes up a cause. The wonder is, however, that being what she is, she does not see through the character of the tyrannical, slave-owning Pindar Pomfret, and allows herself to drift into a marriage with him. Pomfret gets killed in the Civil War, however, and for Gloria there is a vision of chastened and widowed happiness. The chief figures, however, are undoubtedly Garrison and his friend Thompson, who lead the "forlorn hope." They are represented as courageous, but not too courageous, being quite capable, when it is advisable, of running away with a view to fighting another day- Altogether, The Forlorn Hope is no less notable for its brightness than for its earnestness and fidelity to historical truth.
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