My Lady Marcia. By Eliza F. Pollard. (Nelson and Sons.
5s.) —In her. new story Miss Pollard gives us an interesting and graphic account of the French Revolution. Lady Marcia Oldham is an English girl who has lived since her childhood in France, her aunt and guardian being the wife of a French nobleman. At fast her hatred of oppression bids Marcia take the side of the
people, but the wonderful personal charm of Marie Antoinette converts her into an ardent Royalist, and most of the book is filled with her adventures while serving the Royal Family and vainly trying to effect their escape. "The Lady of Mercy "who stops the guillotine at Bordeaux, and is the real cause of ending the Reign of Terror, is—if authentic—a most interesting per. sonality ; if not, we cannot but feel that Miss Pollard has presumed a little on "poetic license" by making such important events rest on a fictitious character.
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