An Actress's Love-Story. By Eva Rose Church. 2 vols. (F.
V. White and Co.)—We learn from the preface, written by the author's mother, that this was the author's first effort in literature, and that it was finished but a few weeks before her death. It is a story of love distracted by two contrary inflaences, the strong sense of obliga- tion and duty, and affection given where it seems to be Undeserved and cannot be legitimately returned. Then there is the complication of a great change in the heroine's social position, a favourite device
of young writers, but one which often spoils the real interest of a story. It would be useless farther to criticise a book that appears under snob circumstances. For the most part, it is free from the common faults of youth, and does not contradict, if it does not signally justify, the editor's expectation of literary success for its author.
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