The Courtship of Sarah. By Sarah Tytler. (John Long. 6s.)
—This book has the rather tiresome fault of leaving the reader to infer the date at which the story is intended to take place. It is the clear right of the novel-reader to conclude, when no date is mentioned, that the story is of the present day. When no inti- mation of the fact is given, and yet the story is not modern, much bepuzzlement must always be caused by the first chapter. The novel is a quiet and rather grey story of life in the family of a retired Nonconformist minister. We say advisedly "in the family of," for the young people settle down by the seaside for the benefit of the brother's health, and never seem to think of going home. The character of Sarah, the heroine, is finely drawn, and the book is altogether to be recommended to people who like a well-written, quiet story, and do not mind its being a little dreary and drag- ging over a rather unconscionable number of years.
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