Hester Lavenham. By Helen Watson. (R.T.S.)—The story opens with the
introduction of Miss Hester Lavenham, a new pupil and a very charming and pretty girl, to the school-room of Miss Millington. She comes from a country rectory, where her grandfather has taught her. She can construe Virgil with ease, but she does not know the multiplication-table. The school scenes are excellent. Then there is introduced a certain little Marie, the child of Miss Millington's sister, who had married "a mad French journalist," the madness being a firm adherence to the principles of the Commune. Mons. or Citoyen Ledin sends for his daughter, and the aunt, sooner than be separated from her darling, gives up her school and goes to Paris. Here, naturally, follow scenes of the Siege of Paris and the struggle between the Versailles Government and the Commune that succeeded it. It is a well-told tale, though we regard the death of little Marie as a "barbarous deed" on the part of Miss Helen Watson.
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