Margaret. By C. C. Fraser-Tytler. (Strahan and Co.)—A readable story,
not without some power. The elements of which it is composed are very slight, and it is to our mind too didactic, but this may possibly commend it to some readers. The sketch of Pickering, the coarse- natured, but large-hearted artist, is extremely good, even if it be a caricature. The authoress contrives that even in the points wherein Pickering repels us most, we shall be reminded of the words she else- where quotes, that "men shrink from skin diseases more than from any other, and they are amongst the hardest to cure. Just as the skin diseases of the soul linger long after the heart itself is cured." Ellen Williams, the rector's daughter, so guileless and wellzmeaning, yet so rigid and prosaic, that her very best thoughts blunder through the utter absence of the imaginative faculty, is also extremely well sketched. The tale is a reprint from the pages of the Sunday Magazine, and has had, in common with many of its compeers, to conform to the exigencies of that worthy periodical..
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