The Princesses of Penruth. By Mary H. Debenham. (Nisbet.) —This
is a pretty little story of how two girls, with the Tenny- sonian and Cornish names of Iseult and Joan, bring happiness to their somewhat aristocratic relatives and their humble neigh- bours in Penruth, where, in obedience to a freak of the writer, they find themselves. This they do by the brightness of their own dispositions rather than by any specially didactic efforts. As there is a young squire—their cousin Ralph—to save from a violent death, and smuggling and poverty to terminate, not to speak of a spinster-lady to put sweetness if not light into, it is evident that the " little princesses " have their hands sufficiently full. But they do ample justice to their mission. Altogether, this is a very improbable, but healthy and pleasant book.
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