That Child. By the Author of "Mademoiselle Mori." (Hat- chards.)—"
That child" is an orphan, found greatly injured in a railway accident, nursed back into health and soundness, and then adopted and brought up by a benevolent lady. The lady dies, and her charge is handed over to her very practical and unimaginative sister, a lady in whom the strong sense of duty is but little informed by the spirit of love. Things are likely to go hard with the poor girl, when Simon Asbury, a recluse antiquarian, intervenes, and touches the deeper feelings which on unsympathising treatment had never called forth. The relation between the solitary man and the child is very well described. There are touches of humour, too. Simon's passion for ornithology, and his friend the rector's passion for [toward, are very neatly touched off, as is also the way in which each looks down upon the hobby of the other. That Child is quite worthy of the author's high reputation.
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