A Flock of Girls, and their Friends. By Nora Perry.
(Ticknor and Co., Boston,II.8.A.)—We are not quite mire that Miss Perry's poetry, limited in range though it is, is not better than her prose. But there is a great deal of piquanoy in these sketches—for they can hardly be described as stories—of American girls in their teens. There is a purpose in every one of them, as, for example—and no better example could be had—in the first, which bears the title of " Tacy," and which tells how a girl comes to be a source of comfort to others through learning to forget herself. We cannot, of coarse, speak at length of Miss Perry's "Jims," and Losises, and Pattye, and Marigolds. One of the best of her sketches is " Dorothy." It is a very pretty picture indeed of a spirited Boston girl, in the days of the straggle of the American Colonies against the British Crown, who finds herself at her " first party " in the company of loyalists.
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