Edgar and I. By Jessie P. Moncrieff. (Remington.)—This is a
creditable efforts n the part of the writer. Her " Edgar " is not the common-place, irreproachable parson, with whose hand, in a certain class of novels, the deserving heroine is rewarded. The common verdict will be that he was eminently disagreeable, and that the woman who married him was not by any means to be envied. Perhaps Miss Monorieff does draw the line a little too rigidly. A man might behave as sternly as he does to a wife who had been chosen for him by a community, but hardly to a girl with whom he is supposed to have fallen in love. Some possible exaggeration on this score being allowed for, Edgar and .l is a vigorous study of character. Its theology is not to our liking, but there is no doubt about the soundness and wholesomeness of its moral teaching.
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