Florence : a Story of Beginnings. By Alice Weber. (Routledge
and Sons.)—This "story of beginnings" might have been called the "story of a boy-and-girl friendship." Florence and her sister pay a visit to an aunt, who charges herself with the care of them during the absence of their parents., Florence makes the ac- quaintance of a certain "Jem," the least satisfactory among the sons of a neighbouring family. He is a shifty and unstable creature ; but the girl believes in him, and though she is by no means faultless herself, her almost fierce partisanship, her trust in his honour, and her distress when she finds that she has thought too well of him, shame him into better thoughts and resolves. This is an excellent study of character. It would have been better without the element of love, introduced quite unnecessarily, as it seems to us, at the end.
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