Olivia. By Mrs. Molosworth. (W. and R. Chambers.)—We are not
a little reminded by this story of Miss Austen, and especially of "Pride and Prejudice." Olivia Rosalyn, daughter of a, country vicar, who, we hasten to say, is not at all of Miss Austen's type of clergyman, makes the acquaintance of a certain Mr. Evorard, whose visit—he is about to become her father's guest—she has somehow come to anticipate with dislike. He is sure, she thinks, to be critical and generally disagreeable. This is the situation with which we begin. The end is such as every reader at all accustomed to guess about such things will have imagined. Do we not all know the advantage, with a view to a certain result, of beginning with a little aversion ? Mrs. Molesworth writes too well to be actually tedious, but we are bound to say that Olivia is not one of her most successful stories.
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