Periwinkle. By Lily Grant Duff. (John Murray. fie )—Miss Grant
Duff gives us a heroine who is supposed to be not quite a mortal, but a transformed fairy. It must, however, be confessed that this fact has little influence on the actions of the young lady in question. But for the introduction and the epilogue, the story would have very few points of difference from the ordinary novel of society, and the heroine would be only considered a slightly capricious specimen of her class. The more fanciful part of Miss Grant Duff's writing is, in our opinion, the side on which she had better seek development, for the everyday part of the book is not specially original. Miss Grant Duff does not quite make us believe in the motives which actuate her characters, but this is a fact of comparatively little importance when the characters are not supposed to be human beings.
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