The General's Daughter. By the author of "A Russian Priest."
(T. Fisher Unwin.)—We do not know that there is any falling-off here as far as literary power is concerned, able as was tho " Russian Priest." But the book will not be found so interesting. The earlier story gave us a singularly vivid picture of a class, and was mainly objective ; this is a character study, powerful, in- deed, but of a limited range. Manitcka Vladirnirovna has lived in a careless gaiety till a reverse of fortune compels her to work for her own livelihood. She becomes a school teacher, and finds that she has been preceded in her place by a remarkable woman who has left a narrative of her life. This is given. So we have a tale within a tale ; the difference and the resemblance between the two women make a very curious study. It need hardly be said, seeing that the story is of Russian origin, that it is doleful in the extreme.
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