10 OCTOBER 1868, Page 24

Love ; or, Self-Sacrifice. A Story. By Lady Herbert. (Richard

Bentley, 1868.)—Lady Herbert has written a pretty story, all the main facts of which she says are true, apparently to prove how wonderfully all events turn out well for good Catholics. The book is tinged with the intense desire to proselytize. " You have your crucifix with you, and that is your Master," is the keynote of.the whole. Lady Herbert is incautious ; the following sentence seems to us a greater revelation than it can be wise to give the uninitiated. The heroine has been bless- ing God for the flowers :—" Little wayside pleasures," and adds, "I shouldn't liko to be a Sister of Charity for that one thing only, that I might not smell these delicious roses !" Est-il possible?