Effle's Game. By Cecil Clayton. 2 vols. (H. S. King.)—This
is a simple, pretty love-story. Effie and her sister Constance go to live with a bachelor uncle, who has a general's command in Portsmouth. Constance'e fortunes are easily told. She finds a match of a most prudent and respectable kind. Nor is there anything very remarkable or heart-breaking about Effie'. A young aide-de-camp, who has nothing but his pay, falls in love with her, proposes, is accepted, and then cries off. Effie consoles herself with a rapidity which speaks much for her good sense. For a moment we are allowed to suppose that a respectable post-captain, of the same stamp as the respectable colonel who secured Constance, will be the happy man ; but a brilliant writer in the Piccadilly, a journal which svo congratulate on possessing so eligible a person on its staff, steps in before and carries off the prize. In truth, the book is of very slight texture, but it is well written. The characters are not very profound studies, but they move, and act, and above all, talk like human beings, and we have liked reading about them.
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