Little Lady Clare. By Evelyn Everett Green. (Blackie and Son.)—This
is a romantic story which will specially appeal to the romance-loving age, an age that may perhaps be put at between twelve and sixteen. Lady Clare is the only daughter of the Earl of Tewkesbury. He dies without male offspring, and the title and estates go away to a distant branch, with whom there has been a family feud ever since the time of the Civil War. The girl comes down to stay at her mother's dower-house, and there makes the acquaintance of the Rector's family, especially of Magdalen, the eldest daughter, and of one Eric, who is a curious mixture of radical and aristocrat. She is in not a little trouble. The loss of her father has grieved her; but then, it had been long expected. I more serious misfortune is the loss of the estates and the title ; and it is part of her unhappiness that she is ashamed of so feel- ing the outside calamity. The little creature, so wilful and yet so honourable, is a curious study. How things are brought straight in the end, we may leave our readers to find out for themselves. There is an ingenious disguise and a happy ending.
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