10 JUNE 1876, Page 22

Life's Aftermath. By Emma Marshall. (Seeleys.)—The scene of the story

is laid, as the author says, among "a quiet people,"—among the "Friends," that is to say, whose life is described with sympathy and respect, though the writer's leanings to orthodox Christianity are made sufficiently manifest. If the story is not quite up to the mark of some that have before come from the author's pen—" Mrs. Mainwaring's Journal," in particular—yet it is pleasant and readable ; and the moral, that those who have their first hopes disappointed will, if they will wait, find abundance of happiness and blessing, is unexceptionable.