The Search for the Gral. By Julia Goddard. (Cassell, Potter,
and Galpin.)—A pretty story, which we may safely pronounce to be better than many that present themselves in a more ambitious form. An enthusiastic girl neglects the substantial good that presents itself in the shape of a cousin and possible lover whom she has known from childhood, and makes a hero out of a shallow-hearted idler, who likes her, but is not prepared to make sacrifices for her. How she is disenchanted and how things turn out for the best the reader may discover for himself, not without satisfaction. There is a good deal about the search for the Gral, as that story is rendered in the poem of " Parzival," and it is, perhaps, the cleverest part of the book. We read it with interest, but did not see very clearly what it had to do with the development of the story. A young man and a young woman find their " Oral " in each other, very probably a happy discovery, but certainly not an uncommon one.
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