A True Knight. By Lady Dunboyne. (National Society. is. 6c1.)—To
marry a woman out on bail for a theft of money, and therefore with a strong suspicion of her guilt to be taken into account, demands a great sacrifice of self, and Reginald Mansfield certainly deserves to be called a knight. He believes her to be innocent, it is true. She confesses to him afterwards. She is a selfish character, cheats at cards, and is very mean. How her character is changed must be found out and followed in this bright little story. The stiff-necked parson, the lawyer brother, and Greta, the heroine, are all distinct characters, and the story is interesting, nearly dramatic sometimes. One moral we can draw,—the folly of allowing the most harmless cheating at juvenile card games. A man may put away this with other childish follies when grown up, but he may live to curse the days when he thought it only fun. If Courts of Law do not recollect these things, a man's acquaintances do.
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