Her Two. By Mrs. G. S. Rooney. (Nisbet.)—This is a
curious story of two children that are adopted by the wife of a prosperous solicitor who is described as " a splendid little woman, just such a woman as a husband can praise at his club without laying himself open to criticism." The manner in which the two children, Daisy and May, fall into Mrs. Egerton's hands is altogether preposterous ; and not less inadequate is their excuse for running away from a comfortable home. This enables them, however, to go through an adequately disciplinary experience, and to contrast their relatives very unfavourably with their guardians, before they are finally and happily married. There are some very curious things in this story, such as the outspokenness of Daisy in regard to the dipsomania which afflicts her father, an Anglican clergyman. May's love for an elderly doctor is also rather improbable. There is, however, a good deal both of didactic and descriptive power in Her Two.
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