Little Miss; or, Leslie Underwood's Fortune. By M. B. Manwell.
(Religious Tract Society.)—Miss Eleanor Winstanley makes a will in which she bequeaths her property of Moseley Dene to her grandniece, the heroine of the story. Having made her will, she puts it away in a very unlikely place, and dies without telling any one about it, and the only other person cognisant of the secret, her doctor, meets with a fatal accident about the same time. That the old lady should have so hidden her will is credible, but that an apparently sane person, Dr. Carew, should have acquiesced can hardly be imagined. Anyhow, it was necessary for the story that he should, and we certainly get in consequence a pretty tale, in which Leslie's patience and courage under misfortune, and the devotion of the eccentric girl, Soprano Rudge, make a pleasant impression on the reader.
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