She Trod the Thorny Path. By Osborne Boyd. 8 vols.
(Tinsley Brothers.)—G won Leslie is turned out of her home for refusing to marry a gentleman who is presented to her as an eligible husband, by a parent who developes suddenly, for the purposes of the story, from an average kind of father into a most atrocious savage. She takes a situation in a German school, and partly to get away from its drudgery, marries a lover who opportunely presents himself. Then another lover, for whom she has had in former days a very silly passion, turns up. Complica- tions, which are not more reasonable or probable than such complica- tions commonly are, arise. Especially, she is convinced by a misrepre- sentation, such as could never have been occurred in real life, that her- husband is a villain. She loaves her home and passes through a variety of adventures. Putting the improbability of the plot aside, the story la not without some merit, but it is far too long.
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