My Lady's Slippers. By Mary H. Debenham. (National Society's Depository.)—This
tale deals with the period at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Joscelyn Felton, who favoured the Stuarts, was forced to flee his country ; his wife followed him with twelve famous diamonds concealed in the heels of her slippers—hence the title. This secret was not known to Walter Gaythorne, who was conducting her across the Channel. The mother dies at se. . without telling the hiding-place of the diamonds. Gaythorne, after the death of the father, looks after their child, and eventually settles at Up word, the seat of the Feltons, now occupied by a cousin who does not know that Joscelyn left an heir. The story is very prettily told, and many of the characters are drawn wonderfully well, Wainwright the schoolmaster especially. There is a seventeenth-century flavour about the spelling of the short form of "Lydia," which appears as " Liddy " or " Lyddy."
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