Bobby : a Christmas - Eve Story. By " Vesper." (Sampson Low and
Co.)—Bobby is the pathetic story of a great-grandmother's twin-sister's romance, told to a great-granddaughter. It is prettily told, and the scene is cast in the days of the last century. The life on a Northern coast, the parties, the coming of the lover, his departure for war, and the implicit and unreasoning faith of his sweetheart in his promise to be back on Christmas Eve, are all strung together with art and great pathos. " Vesper's " female characters are very good and sympathetic. The magic influence which poor Lovely exerts on all round her is well con- trasted with the foreboding of ill and the aft action of her devoted sister, the relater of the tale. Bobby is told, of course, in the first person, and bears other marks of the " shilling " type about it, chiefly "impending calamity ;" but it is a remarkably good shilling's-worth.
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