My Mother's Diamonds. By Maria J. Greer. (Griffith and Ferran.)
—Many people doubtless are amused by reading about the blunders and follies of the personages in a tale, though there are others, fool- ishly sensitive, it may be, who feel a certain painfulness in them, just as they do in witnessing such things in real life. However this may be, it is certainly a mistake to give us a monotonous succession of each things such as we find in the tale before us. "Fred" is uniformly mis- chievous, " Merylle " silly, " Dick "dirty and troublesome, and" George" greedy. Not a gleam of light is permitted to vary this uniform dark- ness, nor, we may add, is the heroine and historian ever anything but conceited, self-conscious, and disagreeable. Every fooling of justice is outraged, and all belief in the moral government of the world shaken to its base, when this most silly and vexatious of young women is raised, so to speak, to the Walhalla of the good girls of religious fiction, and marries a clergyman of typical excellence.
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