30 MAY 1896, Page 23

A Spoilt Girl. By Florence Warden. (F. V. White and

Co.)— " Harry Brancepeth" is indeed "spoilt." Indeed, we venture to think that she is impossible. She and her five brothers are, to our mind, caricatured copies of Di Vernon and her cousins the Osbaldistones. But tnough no one can suppose that Miss Warden's characters are drawn from life, still the story is suffi- ciently readable. It is not wanting in incident, and the incident is put together with some skill. Miss Warden knows how to tell a story, but she has not always got a good story to telL