The Rightful Daughter. By Maude M. Butler. (Jarrold and Sons.)—Miss
Butler must really be a little more sparing in her
use of coincidences and surprises. We are prepared to discover that the beautiful Marion is a kinswoman of the family, that Mr. Hargreave's children have been lost, though the experience is not common. But when in the same family history we have the child changed at nurse, and a claimant, we rebel. This is the more to be regretted, because the writer has the power of pathetic writing. We like her story, in spite of its improbabilities.
Dulcie's Lantern and other Stories, by Theo Gift and Others (Griffith, Farran, and Co.), is a volume of stories for children, which a number of nice illustrations, coloured and other, will help to make attractive.—Uncle Charlie's Sunday Book (same publishers) is a volume of stories from the Bible. Here the illustrations are scarcely as good; the angel in the frontispiece is sadly wanting in dignity.
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