The Strength of Her Youth. By Sarah Doudney. (Isbister.)— Viola
Dacie, discontented with poverty and dulness at home, goes on a visit to a wealthy aunt, and plunges into the gaieties of the great world. She is intended to make a great match, but her heart is too strong for her, and she falls in love with a detrimental. He too loves, but he is not brave enough to face "love in a cottage ;" and Viola comes home, disenchanted, but happily too sensible to pine, and in the end finds her happiness. The story is simple enough, and has been told in substance before ; but Miss Doudney handles it well. The three sisters—the saint-like Alice, ambitions Viola, and boisterous Ruth—are well drawn ; so is the old dowager, Lady Ryder. Fanny Hood is too sly and plotting. A girl would hardly deliberately plan to advise a possible rival to wear what would be least becoming to her.
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