Among Strangers: an Autobiography. Edited by E. S. Maine. (Smith
and Elder.)—This is a love story with a certain mystery of parentage in it, and with a number of cross purposes among the actors which are a little perplexing and even wearying to the reader. The editor writes as if the narrative were actually true ; at all events, it has a truthful look ; though, indeed, one never, it may almost be said, hears in real life of these mysterious revelations, by which a man hears on coming of age that he is quite a different person from what he had thought. And in real life, too, people break through these webs of misapprehension and mistake which in the world of fiction seem so hopelessly strong. Among Strangers may, nevertheless, be ranked as a good story. Life and character in the remote Welsh valley are well drawn, and the narrator tells her story with vivacity and in a natural, unaffected tone.
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