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Priscilla. By Mrs. George Wemyss. (Constable and Co. 6s.) —Priscilla

is almost too ingenuous a young person, and the reader will feel inclined to apostrophize her, as Queen Charlotte was apostrophized by her brothers when she was a nervous and shrink- ing little Princess, "Ne faia pas renfant." Priscilla plays the child really too much, for even young ladies who are married at seventeen would be grown-up at twenty-two or twenty-three. She is, however, rather an attractive person, and those readers who like sentiment will be charmed by the delight with which she contemplates approaching maternity after a married life of some six years' duration. There is nothing which can be called. a story in the book, which is just the reflection of a state of mind.