Some Men are such Gentlemen. By Arabella Kenealy. (Digby, Long,
and Co.)—Lois Clinton, the quick-tempered, unconventional, but plucky and likable heroine of this novel, is a young lady of good family in extremely reduced circumstances, inhabiting a rambling old manor-house with no living companions save an aged, helpless, and very disagreeable grandmother, a kite of abnormal sagacity, and a dog. As a child she has no hesitation about committing burglary to procure necessary food for her household, and when grown up is equally ready to shoot people with her blunderbuss in defence of a young man who profits by her innocence to make her believe he is a fugitive in need of sanctuary, and thus manages to establish himself in the house, and seriously compromises her good name. Notwithstanding the story's wild improbability, it is amusing enough to be readable, because of the unusualness of her adventures, and also because the girl-nature depicted is felt to be quite possible, even though the circumstances that develop it certainly are not.
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