example of its author's now well-known style. It is thoroughly,
but not offensively, religious. Of the two girls who figure in it most prominently, Marjory and Lilies, the one is sacrificed, and in the
long-run sacrifices herself, for the other. She is enabled to do so by the faith which has subjugated her heart even more than her head. Marjory deserved a better fate, however, we are inclined to think, than marriage with the rather pompons lecturing and Quarterly Review-ing Mr. Frere, especially after she has had the good sense to
describe his life—at least, his unregenerate life—to him thus :—" You get up, and you go to bed ; you eat and drink and talk, and you smoke and read ; and, when the humour takes you, you write some stupid paper in some stupid magazine about some Anglo-Saxon cus- tom or other ; and sometimes you go to your club. Do you call this life ?"
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