1 JUNE 1867, Page 22

Our Cousins in Australia. By Isabel 3lassary. (Edinburgh : W.

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Nimmo.)—We can recommend this story as pleasing and healthy, a little spun out, but never forced or affected. The scene is laid in Sydney, and the tale is put in the mouth of a young girl acting for the first time as governess. Her pupils are wild, which cannot be surprising in Australia. They make the acquaintance of a disreputable family, passing itself off as being highly connected. Almost too much of the story turns on this pretence, and the reality it shrouded, but the scenes are sketched in naturally, and the characters are in keeping.