Aubert. By Jennie Chappell. (W. R. Nimmo, Edinburgh.)— 'This is
a love-story,—ionocent, indeed, but a love-story pure and simple. Mr. Aubert, alias Mr. Verney, Lestrange is loved by one young lady and loves another, who behaves badly to him but repents. There is a complication which we have not space to explain, but the two Christian names have something to do with it. Of course misunderstandings of this kind do not really occur in life, or if they occur, are pretty sure to be set right before they do any harm. But we do not object to the book on this, or, indeed, on any account, only we cannot see for what class of readers it is meant.--Duicie's Love-Story, by Evelyn Everett- Green (Nelson and Son), it will be soon, frankly avows its .character. It is, we cheerfully grant, conceived in a fine spirit. Bayard is a noble character, worthy of his name. If we are to have tales of this kind, this may well be accepted as a more than tolerable sample.—From the same author and publisher we get Dulcie's Resolve. This certainly has the advantage of not being a love-story. It tells, and tells not without effect, the story of the return of a prodigal to his home. One may criticise some details of the plot. The wrong-doing which shute out Dallas Mowbray from his home is of an exceedingly improbable kind, No man not absolutely a lunatic would forge a cheque by way of bravado, actually hand it to a man to whom he owed money, and then go off without a word of explanation to the father whose name he had abused. And there is a melodramatic touch in some of the incidents, while the introduction of Dulcie's calf is too ludicrous to be pathetic. Still, Dulcie's Resolve is a good story in its way, though we should hesitate about putting even this into a child's hands.
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