19 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 11

A Very Odd Girl. By Annie E. Armstrong. (Blackie and

Son.) —Vera, the daughter of a certain Mona. Despard, who is not a very steady character, and his English wife, comes to the home of her English relatives, and naturally is found to be a somewhat troublesome inmate. We have here the story of how she is turned into a reasonable and helpful woman, ready to fill up the place of her cousin Margaret, when the latter's engagement ends in marriage. It is a good story of its kind, though it is a little wanting in liveliness.