Eena Romney. By Myra Felton. (Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh.)—This
book differs from most works of the class to which it belongs—the class of Evangelical fiction—in that the scene is laid not in England, but in New South Wales, whither Mr. Romney, an English clergyman, has to betake himself for the sake of his health. There is plenty of adventure in the book, and the hero to whom Eena Romney is betrothed has to undergo not a few misfortunes, and is all but murdered by Batenor, the villain of the story, who, however, is converted before the close. Yet all seems to end well. Some of the descriptions of scenery in New South Wales, especially of storms, are realistic, although certain words, such as "ultramarine," are used too frequently. All the good persons who figure in Eena Romney—and there are almost none that are utterly bad—are sustained by religion, about which, however, there is obviously no pretence. Eena Romney seems an excellent book to place in the hands of a Sunday-school pupil.
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