An Old London Nosegay. By Beatrice Marshall. (Seeley and Co.
5s.)—Lovejoy Young, daughter of Master Aurelius Howard, Doctor of Music, begins by telling us how she came to be married to her husband, Master Gabriel Young. As he is taking her home they meet King Charles on his way back from the City after his fruitless quest of the "Five Members." Her last writing in her diary is dated May 29th, 1660. It will be under- stood, therefore, what are the subjects with which she occupies her pen. The scenes which she describes are mostly in London ; but the diary is ingeniously varied with letters from Oxford, written by one Laurel, who is Mistress Young's elder step- daughter,—the younger is a pathetic figure of the deaf-and- dumb Silence. Laurel is really the heroine of the tale, and it is in her love story that its chief interest lies. Miss Marshall shows herself more and more equal to filling her mother's place.
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