Therefore. By Florence E. Burch. (Religious Tract Society.) —The writer
has endeavoured to put before her readers what she conceives to be the troubles which would most likely happen to a young girl who undertakes housekeeping with an invalid mother, and is considerably handicapped by the shadow of a departed greatness, in this case an elder sister who has just married. All the annoyances which young housekeepers usually suffer from are touched upon. There is the aforesaid nervous mother, the old and short-tempered maiden aunt, the servants who are never tired of referring to the power which lately held sway, and the master of the house, who, perhaps more than all the rest, draws comparisons between past and present, and always to the advantage of the old customs. For many, Therefore will have a real and vivid interest.
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