The Girl in the Brown Habit. By Mrs. Edward Kennard.
3 vole. (F. V. White.)—Mrs. E. Kennard gives us one of her customary mixtures of sport and love. The sport seems to be of much the same quality as usual ; the love-story is perhaps above the average in interest. Of course, the lovers play at cross-purposes in a very pro- voking and unnatural manner ; still, it is possible to read about them. The chief fault in the book is what we must take leave to call a certain vulgarity. The heroine, for instance, talks about her guests, the clergyman's daughters, in an unladylike way, ill becoming her own beauty and youth. The hero, too, is in the habit of putting a money value on certain contingencies in a way that does not improve our opinion of him. He is willing to give a year's income, or half.e, year's income, or a hundred pounds, if something would or would not happen, that something being what cannot be measured by money.
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