Severn - Side : the Story of a Friendship. (W. P. Nimmo
and Co., Edinburgh.)—We hope that the readers for whom this volume— part of a "Young Ladies' Library "—is intended will not have so stormy an experience of love as Dorothy and Winifred, the friends whose story is here told, had to go through. One of them is the deserted wife of a worthless husband ; and the other is within an ace, so to speak, of leaving her home without even the name of wife of an equally worthless lover. Nothing could be better than the intention with which this is told, and we are not ready to deny that there are readers to whom it may be useful. Still, we would suggest that Winifred could hardly have picked up so soon the jargon of her being as much her lover's wife as if they had been united by a priest; while it is equally improbable in another way that Dorothy should have come to be schoolmistress in the village with which she had family connections. There is merit in the story ; but it has, we cannot but think, serious blemishes.
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