of writing. Her three volumes average more than three hundred
pagee each, and the pages have an almost discouragingly close look. If only the allowance of interest, whether in incident or character, were some- thing to correspond! Her heroes and heroines chatter away, very naturally, doubtless, but in a quite unimportant and desultory fashion. Everybody is in love, except, of course, the elderly people, who have closed that chapter of life; and everybody, without any very serious difficulty, is married. The hero finds out, indeed, quite late on in the story, that he is an altogether different person from what he had thought. But as the change is very much for the better, the event, which would commonly be somewhat disturbing, passes off very quietly. It may almost be said that this is the only incident in She Reigns Alone, but it has improbability enough to raise the average of that quality throughout the book tolerably high.
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