30 JANUARY 1892, Page 11

Averil. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (Religious Tract Society.) —This is

a pretty story, which it would not be easy, perhaps, to distinguish from an ordinary novel. One may have a suspicion that it would not have appeared under its present auspices five-and- twenty years ago. But this does not at all mean to say that we in the least disapprove. People will have fiction, and fiction to which love supplies the main interest. This being so, great is the gain when we have something so thoroughly wholesome, and at the same time interesting, and, we may add, instructive, as Miss Carey's Avera.