Her Fortune. By Seacome Bell. (James Blackwood.)—Captain Treherne finds that
he has only £3,000 to leave his daughter. To in- crease " her fortune," he proposes to write a book, which should be pub- lished after his death, and to assist him in this work engages a secre- tary. If we know anything about books, it would have been better to have economised the secretary's salary. But the secretary being a man of aristocratic appearance and agreeable manners, the daughter falls in love with him. To protect her against poverty, the father on his death-bed makes her swear that she will not marry any one who is not the son of a nobleman. But lo 1 the secretary is found to be not only the son of a nobleman, but an actual nobleman, and the blessed spirit of the father looks down with satisfaction on the union. Morality is not disregarded. The mischief-making wife of a clergyman is punished. by being claimed by a former husband, whose existence she had con- cealed. The heroine's faithful companion is rewarded by the hand of the family lawyer, whose wife has been providently disposed of before. Criticism on such a story is not needed, but we may remark that the style is as lamentably bad as the plot.
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