The Girls of St. Bede's. By Geraldine Mockler. (Jarrold and
Sons.)—" Stories for girls" are, as a rule, the one kind of books which girls refuse to read ; but we think this will prove an excep- tion, for it is decidedly superior to most of its class. The isola- tion of the heroine—a girl of sixteen—on her first entrance into school life is well described, as is also the gradual process by which a better understanding is brought about between herself and her companions. The plot turns on the efforts of an enemy of hers to ruin her in the opinion of her schoolfellows. The scene upon the beach, when Margaret saves the life of her rival, is decidedly thrilling ; though we may be permitted to doubt if in
real life it would have been possible for the former to support a girl of Julia's age and size in her arms for so many hours. We also question if Julia's sudden reformation is quite natural. A person capable of hatching so cold-blooded a plot against one who had never injured her would hardly have been so completely converted even by the generosity of her victim.
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