The Close of St. Christopher's. By Emma Marshall. (Nisbet and
Co.)—This "story of girls," though it has nothing remarkable about it, is told in the tasteful, sensible way which we are accus- tomed to look for in Mrs. Marshall's work. Penelope, daughter of the Dean of St. Christopher's, has been brought up in what seems to her neighbours an old-fashioned way. But she comes out of the process an unselfish, single-minded woman, who, without any thought but of doing her own duty, greatly influences the lives of others. The plot is somewhat unfinished, one or two of the characters having little, as far as we can see, to do with its develop- ment. Still, the whole presents a vivid and life-like picture. We could not help wondering at the literary curiosities which the learned Dean of St. Christopher's possessed. "His shelves wore filled to overflowing with books of every shape and size, and of every century, both B.C. and A.D."
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