Lady Rosalind. By Emma Marshall. (James Nisbet and Co.) —We
have here one of those stories which Mrs. Marshall delights- to tell, of a proud young Englishwoman, whose nature is- disciplined by misfortune—for which, however, she is not to blame—and who, although it is not her destiny to be married, finds a measure of happiness in dignified spinsterdom. Lady Rosalind Penfold has, indeed, a good deal to "try" her, especially in the double life led by her father before his death, and which- involves his family in mishaps of more kinds than one. But her character is equal to the surmounting of them all, even to the. discovery that not her brother Geoffrey, but her crippled cousin Bernard, is her father'a successor and the Earl of Penbury. She- is well drawn, as are also Sir William Henderson, whom she might, and perhaps ought to, have married ; the odious Mrs. Mackenzie, whose mission it is to spring a mine upon Lady Rosalind and her relatives ; and Geoffrey, vslio by a happy marriage makes up for the loss—which is but temporary after all—of his title. And yet Mrs. Marshall takes a most un- conscionable time in telling her story ; her narrative is here and there prolix to dreariness.
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