Quite. By Cecil Dunstan. 2 vols. (Ward and Downey.)— The
best thing in Quits is the contrast which " Cecil Dunstan " draws between the unaffected girl who has imbibed the freedom and generosity of Colonial life, and her London cousins, who are all that young society ladies should be ; they are a little ex- aggerated, it is true, but it is hard for any one to describe people of their type without exaggerating their faults. The love-story is not, on the whole, satisfactory, and the end is weak, too evidently caught at as a way out of a difficulty. The peculiar position which the father and son stand in to Quita, is not in itself bad; but the working out is palpably shirked in the end. Quila, however, is readable, quiet and even, but never really dull, though we must say the last page is reached with a sigh of relief, and Quita's love-affair drags somewhat after two volumes of it.
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