A Daughter of the South, and Shorter Stories. By Mrs.
Barton Harrison, (Cassell and Co.)—There is much delicacy of touch in
Mrs. Harrison's handling of her subjects. Berthe Lagastine is
compelled to take refuge with her mother in Paris, and to do as well as she can on the diminished income which comes to them
from their Southern estate. She has a Southern lover who proves false, and another from the North. For him she feels at the first that aversion which, a groat authority tells us, is a good beginning for love. The Paris life and Bertha's triumph on the stage, for the stage has been from her childhood the passion of her life, are admirably told. "Jenny the Disbutante " is as good as any of the "shorter stories." In "A Suit, Decided," the humour, which is by no moans absent from the first of the stories, is conspicuous, with a very effective touch of pathos at the end.
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