Bow it All Happened. By Louisa Parr. 2 vols. (Strahan.)—Miss
Parr's "Dorothy Fox" was, as we took occasion to say, a capital book and gave its author a distinct rank among novelists. The volume before us seems to be the natural consequence of that success. Miss Parr collects, if we may hazard the conjecture, her earlier works, and gives them to a public which has learnt her name. The public will be a little disappointed. The tales are well written enough and of an excel- lent tone, but with nothing distinctive about them, nothing like the sweet picture of the Quakeress Dorothy, with her timid love of the 'man of war' whom she ought to think so wicked, but whom she finds so charming. "A Will of Her Own" is perhaps the best of the tales, with its bright heroine, who prefers the poor friends who had stood by her in her desolation to the rich uncle who seeks to buy her love. Of course the rich uncle developes after the manner of Mr. Scrooge into a very sterling character.
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