19 DECEMBER 1891, Page 25

The Family Difficulty. By Sarah Dondney. (Hutchinson and Co.)—The "family

difficulty" is a niece who, brought up in the household of a clergyman from motives of kindness, does not fit nicely into her place. She is of a wholly different temper. impulsive where they are commonplace. This difference of temper brings her into various troubles ; but finally all things turn out for the best, even the unlucky tread from a horse's hoof, which had at one time threatened to spoil the girl's singular beauty, obligingly minimising its effects. This is a pretty and not improbable story.