A Great Indiscretion. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (Isbister.)— When the small
hero of A Great Indiscretion makes his first appearance disguised as an unknown foundling, left mysteriously at a cottage door, the intelligent reader has no difficulty in divining that he is really his rich great-aunt's heir, who is destined to storm the citadels of affection and fortune from which his father was ejected; and it is no surprise at the end to find that the indiscretion which brought Rennie into existence is recognised by everybody to have been a blessing. He is a tolerably engaging little chap, and would be still more so if less preternaturally endowed with a wisdom and self-reliance that are beyond his years. The story seems to have been inspired by "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and—though a long way after that work—is not a bad article of its kind. It is not exactly mawkish ; but at the same time, in endeavouring to describe it, we have an idea that this word is lurking somewhere very near at hand, too bashful, perhaps, to make itself fully visible.
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