Miss Lucy. By Christabel Coleridge. (Hurst and Blackett. 6s.)—" Miss
Lucy," the neglected child of a squire's family, marries an under-gamekeeper at the age of seventeen in despair of finding a congenial home in her own class. This is the intro- duction to the story of her life, but the novel itself is concerned with a period many years later, when Miss Lucy's own children are grown up. The author is right in calling her book a character- sketch, as the whole interest centres in the person of the heroine. Miss Coleridge may be said to be successful in her study of the girl who carries the masterful characteristics of the sphere in which she was born into the sphere into which she marries, for the perfect good humour and aplomb of Miss Lucy's behaviour as Mrs. Edgar Lee are very cleverly indicated. The book, though rather slight, is decidedly entertaining, and, unlike Most of the novels of the present day, may be recommended as being abso- lutely suitable for young people's reading.
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