Three Bright Girls. By Annie E. Armstrong. (Blackie.)—Un- doubtedly great
skill is shown by the writer of this story in portraying Doris, Honor, and Molly, the three girls who give the title to it, and who are " bright " in different " styles," and still more in tracing the development of their different characters. As a matter of course, perhaps, there is a family misfortune in it : a father suffers losses in business, and dies. This misfortune, however, does not seriously or permanently affect, at least for -evil, the future of any of the girls ; and at the end of the story, they are all seen on the eve of as happy marriages as they well could desire. The two substantially good fairies of the book recall rather too readily the Cheeryble Brothers ; but as the young people for whom Three Bright Girls is obviously intended are not likely to have studied Dickens, this probably uninten- tional resemblance will not diminish their liking for Edward and Ben Talboys. Daisy, the little girl who is not left out in the cold, even although her sisters get married, will probably be, in the eyes of many, the favourite character in Three Bright Girls. On the whole, she is the best drawn.
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