25 DECEMBER 1886, Page 22

When We were Girls Together. By Sarah Doudney. (Hodder and

Stoughton).—Jennet Fowler is sent to a " finishing " school by a rich aunt ; and ultimately, after sundry experiences in her new life, comes in for the rich aunt's money. The story is of an ordinary kind, but written with good taste and good feeling. We venture to think that, after all, the curate was right when he said that the money ought to have been divided. Why this passion for making heroines into heiresses ?