The Love - Dream of Gatty Penning. By Sarah Doudney. (Hutchin- son
and Co.)—This is one of the best, perhaps because it is one of the shortest, of this author's stories. The motif is intelligible, the plot is not too elaborate, and the conversations are not too numerous. A pretty country girl, self-conscious, ambitious, and with a liking for dress and "society," falls in love with the wrong
man, and, on discovering that he does not reciprocate her passion, meditates suicide. She is, however, aroused from her dream, and in the end finds her happiness in the right quarter, and in the arms of the right man. Meanwhile, the social and mental refinement for which she has longed has come to her also. This is in all respects a wholesome, well-written story. Gatty Fenning is perhaps the best study in feminine character that its author has yet produced.
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