Valencia. By Maggie Fearn. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is essentially, and
indeed ostentatiously, a religious tale, in the sense that it is the story of a pretty, capricious, self-willed, and, in a small way, self-indulgent girl, who is brought over to religion —which, it is needless to say, is of the evangelical sort—by the influence of another girl who comes as a visitor to-her father's house. There is plenty of love-making and match-making in the story, and the deserving people get as much happiness as they can reasonably expect ; and so " worldly " folks may enjoy the story. Edith D'Arcy, the good genius of the book, and Clarence Vaughan, the young University man of the period, who, even when he is not " a Christian," is "a man of honour," are both admirably sketched. Altogether, this is in its own way both a readable and an able story.
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