24 MARCH 1888, Page 22

An Impecunious Lady. By Mrs. Forrester. (Ward and Downey.) —Mrs.

Forrester tells the story of how a fashionable woman, who had never thought of anything but how to look charming, learns to feel for the sorrows of others. Her awakening to the sense of responsibility, her shrinking from what it makes her feel, her some- what headstrong enthusiasm when at last it masters her, are all excellently described. Mrs. Forrester has put all her skill into this little story, which we commend with the more heartiness because it is published for the House of Shelter, an institution of which those who desire may learn more if they will, as they probably will after reading this little story, at the "Oxford House, Bethnal Green."