Nellie Graham. By Ella Stone. (James Nisbet.)—This is an excellent
and well-written story of a self.saorificing girl with a self-indulgent brother, who, after a temporarily brilliant and suc- cessful career as a barrister, commits forgery, and, after killing his mother by his conduct, flees from his native country to die miserable and penitent. Nellie acts as a mother to his children till she herself is happily married. The tone of the book is earnestly religious, but the fact interferes in no way either with the evolution of the plot, or with the representation of the country scenes in it, which are laid in the North of England. We have only one complaint to make about Nellie Graham,—the illustrations are scarcely worthyof the letterpress. Nellie's lover, Dr. Blumhardt, was no doubt elderly and plain, bat he need not have been made to wear the sinister appearance of a atagey conspirator.
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