14 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 24

Cassandra's Casket. By Emma Marshall. (Nisbet and Co.)—The somewhat attractive

title is not particularly appropriate to this tale of the development of a girl's character, in which the "casket" does not play any very special part. The sentiments are, of course, good ; but the incidents generally are uninteresting, and the book so tame that we fail to see a raison d'eerire. At any rate, we cannot recom- mend our young friends to read tales of this quality amid the abund- ance of better ones.