A Few Good Women, and What They Teach Us. By
Catherine Mary MacSorley. (John Hogg.)—Mrs. Somerville's singularly interesting story is the first in this volume, and perhaps the best. But there is one of a person little known, Margaret Blaggs, afterwards by mar- riage Margaret Godolphin, which has a great attraction about it. She was maid-of-honour to Qaeen Catharine off Braganza ; she was beautiful and witty, and a remarkably good actress ; and she lived the
life of a saint. One must think of her when one recalls the horrid story of that time. There is some salt in the world at its worst. The adventures of Madame Lescnse, afterwards Madame de la Roche- Jacquelin, are better known, but they were worth telling again. The other lives are those of Mary Agnes Jones, Superintendent of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, and a pioneer in nursing reform, Lady Rachel Russell, the Countess of Derby (of Latham House fame), St. Monica, and Hilda of Whitby. This " book for girls " is admirably suited to its readers.
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