Engaged to be Married. By L. T. Meade. (Griffith, Farran
and Co.)—Mrs. Meade has never drawn three more lifelike and vivid girls than Helen and Dorothea Channing and Emmy Thorn, who live together in a flat Helen is a. girl of fine sensibilities, but a little too practical and absorbed in her work, though devoted to her sister. Dorothea is waywar I and uncertain, but an artistic genius, and she must have the best lessons. Emmy, a quiet but courageous soul, engaged to be married, with a mother and sisters nearly starved at home, is the most unselfish of the three, and gives them many a lesson. She is the true heroine. How- ever, the good points of all, and their affection for each other, come out admirably in the last chapter. The strong but loving Helen has to bear a hard trial in Dorothea's marriage, which takes place while she is away in America ; while in Eany's case her love and faith have to undergo severe trials. It is a fascinating story, with some tender and sympathetic touches, and some quiet, but none the less striking, delineations of the best features of feminine character,—a story we heartily recommend to young ladies of the would-be intellectual and self-sufficing type.
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