Environment. By Florine T. M'Cray. (Funk and Wagnalls.)— If Miss
M'Cray had contented herself with telling one story instead of two, or even three, the result would have been better. There is the history of Miss Meredith, who takes to drinking, apparently in consequence of the alcoholic remedies prescribed for her during an attack of pneumonia, and is rescued by the courage and devotion of her step-daughter. Then there is the history of this step-daughter herself, who comes to love that which she had once laughed at ; and, finally, there is the history of Adeline Stoneham, who becomes secretary to a New York publisher at a salary of twelve hundred dollars—(fortunate young woman !)—and ends by being his reader and wife. All this is told in a readable way, but at too great length. If Miss M'Cray will quote "Owen Meredith," let her quote him right.
"But 0 the smell of that jasmine flower ! And 0 that music ! and 0 the way
That voice rang out from the donjon tower,"
is the passage correctly ; but here the second and third lines are run into one, and the melody ruined by leaving out the " 0" before "the way."
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