30 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 26

Stranger Margaret. By Mary Hampden. (R.T.S.)—We cannot believe that any

family of girls would behave so badly to a cousin as the young Lynns do, and yet we are to believe that these young ladies put every imaginable insult on their cousin Margaret. The stranger does finally beat down the barrier of dislike and snobbishness, and wins the affection of her cousins, and she clearly deserves some reward. Some young readers might certainly read Stranger Margaret, and take the moral to heart, if only to put them on their guard against entering families of the Lynn type.