Joan's Victory. By the Author of " Starwood Hall." (National
Society's Depository.)—This is much more decidedly a study of character than are most of the books that have come from its author's pen. Joan is a girl of strong feeling, but of great power of self-repression, who has taken a dislike to one of her two brothers, because he has induced the other to run away to sea. She has no occasion, however, for showing what she is really made of until after the deaths of her father and mother, when she becomes the mistress of their house. She then asserts herself against a domineering aunt, which is quite justifiable, and hardens her heart against her errant brother, which is un- Christian. It would hardly be fair to the author of this story to indicate the processes by which the inevitable softening in Joan's character takes place; it must suffice to say that they are admirably detailed. Joan is really a very powerful psychological study, and her story is at once simply and artistically told.
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