Di Fawcett : One Year of her Life. By C.
L. Pirkis. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This story is told in a vivid style. The situation, indeed, is one of the social difficulties out of which some- thing may readily be made,—two beautiful girls, belonging to a family on which Society looks somewhat shyly. And while this is really the subject, all goes well. Unfortunately, the author seems to feel the need of a plot. Accordingly, we have an elopement, a mysterious murder, a voluntary victim, and the accustomed melo- dramatic properties generally. This, it must be owned, is somewhat tiresome; but the writer's picturesqueness and energy do not desert her, and the book continues readable throughout. We should like to know what idea Miss Pirkis has formed of the ecclesiastical position of the strange being whom she speaks of as "the Dean." "I had a pulpit of my own till within the last few years, and then they in- hibited me," he says on one occasion. It is not so easy a thing, as Miss Pirkis seems to fancy, to inhibit a Dean.
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