Clarinda's Quest. By Ethel F. Heddle. (Mackie and Son. 52.)—The
story opens with a painter's pupil-room in Paris, where we are introduced to a Clarinda who has a very high opinion ol herself. The scene changes. Clarinda and her sister Betty find
themselves friendless, but the young lady's spirit is not broken.
She persuades an uncle—she is a high-born maiden—to let her have an empty house in Chandos Square. We wonder whether she paid rates, water and other, for Uncle Charles certainly did not. There the sisters have some interesting experiences, and make some notable acquaintances, among them a Jacobite Duke.
Meanwhile an earlier friend has gone out to fight in South Africa. but what happens to him it is not for us to tell. Anyhow, Clarinda and her quest—the old pursuit of happiness which some one called a beggarly philosophy—make a good story.
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