Love Conquers All. By A. C. Hertford. (Oliphant, Anderson, and
Ferrier.)—This is an exceedingly commonplace little story; it is, however, harmless, and may find favour with very unexacting readers. The heroine, Cecil Wilmot, infected with the restless spirit of the age, takes a very independent step at the beginning of the book, and becomes a companion to an elderly lady in Sussex. She takes an early opportunity of declaring that her choice of a husband shall be neither in the direction of a soldier nor a widower, and, of course, meets both combined in_ the person of her minister's nephew, who has, on his part, formed the desperate resolution of trusting no young and beautiful woman again. They marry, and so the title of the book is justi- fied; but beyond two very hastily expressed opinions, there is marvellously little for love to overcome, and the struggle takes a marvellously short time. There is a striving after effect in the heroine's manner, and in the whole tone of the book ; its capital paper and type forming, to our minds, its chief attraction.
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