2 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 42

In Charge : a Story of Rough Times. By Mary

E. Palgrave. (National Society.)—Miss Palgrave shows no little skill in the construction of her plot, and tells her story in a very pleasing way. The "rough times" are the smuggling days of the early part of this century, and Felicity, the heroine, the only child of a some- what disreputable old Preventive officer, has a very bitter ex- perience of them. She and her lover have to battle through the old struggle between love and duty ; they choose the better parts and find their reward even in this life. There is just a touch of wilfulness in Felicity, when we first see her, which well sets off the devotion and courage which are afterwards developed in her. This is a food 407.