May Hamilton. By " M. B." (Biggs and Co.)—Considerable cleverness,
especially in character-delineation, is displayed in this book, but it cannot be said to be the pleasantest that could be put into a girl's hand. May Hamilton is an interesting girl whose intentions are better than her performances, and that action of hers which leads to all her troubles—her giving up of her watch to a poor child—savours of magnanimity. But her father is an odiously selfish man, and it is impossible•to read a•couple of pages without coming across either him or May's stepmother, who, if not quite so intolerable as her husband, is lamentably deficient in the art of bringing up children. There are, however, three really good characters in this story—May's aunt, Mrs. Maitland ; her sister Eleanor, who at the beginning seems in point of selfishness to be her father's child entirely ; and the girl in whose hands May's watch is placed. They are obviously drawn from the life.
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