Life's Blindfold Game. By Maggie Swan. (Oliphant, Ander- son, and
Co.)—If this is a Christmas book, it is meant for older children, about the ages of seventeen and twenty-one inclusive. The plot is a regular novel-plot,—there is the earnest minister with a mother who periodically gets drunk, a hard cruel manager of some ironworks, and his lovely heartless sister, a young school- mistress as good as she is pretty, and an intellectual ironworker. The story is readable, for David Grey, the minister, is a fine character, and the schoolmistress is attractive ; but the other in- dividuals are not lifelike, and crude enough to partially spoil what we may term a " goody " novel. Young ladies about seven- teen might read Life's Blindfold Game with interest, but they would miss a certain healthy vitality which stories with a moral ought to have, and without which they are all but unreadable.
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