Happy with Either. By " A. L. 0. S." 2 vols.
(Remington.)—'*e have found this a well-told and interesting story. Andrew Macdonald, a man of low birth, who has raised himself in life, takes occasion, from being factor for the two estates of Sir David Ramsey, to win the love of two women, who, from circumstances strange, though not impossible, happen, though standing to each other in the relation of aunt and niece, to be mutually strangers. How his falseness comes by its proper re- ward, and the good of which he was not worthy goes by natural pro- cess to another, is very well told in this novel. It is curious that a book written with some ability should contain such extraordinary blunders. How was it possible that a man who loft children behind him, born of two mothers, and differing in age by more than thirty years, should have "paid the debt of nature in early life "? Why did Andrew Macdonald and his elder lady-love, wishing to be married without any ceremony, and being at the time in Scotland, go across the Border into England ? Why, again, wishing above all things to preserve the record of the marriage, did he get the custodian of the register to let him cut it out of the book ? And is a man said to be " fey " when he is in unusually low spirits ? A little care might have removed these and other blemishes from the book, not without great advantage to it.
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