Dangerous Jewels. By M. Bramston. (National Society.)— Miss Bramston seems
to have thrown her strength into the por- traiture of the Gypsy girl Mahala. The figure is drawn with power, and very carefully and skilfully shaded. Most of the personages in fiction of this kind are all light or all dark. Miss Bramston seems to recognise that though this is an easy style of art, it has the disadvantage of caricaturing nature. Mahala is not by any means an angel, nor even a good woman. She engages in a base plot for robbing certain children. Sometimes she seems not incapable of doing even worse. Yet there is a better side to her nature. Her last resolve, and the way in which it is carried out, make some fine chapters. It is a well-contained, well-told tale, with one figure, as we have said, much above the average of such work.
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