Lisette's Venture. By Mrs. Russell Grey. (Henry S. King and
Co.)— We suppose there must exist a multitude of people without intellectual tastes or discernment, who nevertheless find in reading a way, not for employing, but for killing time, and for such multitude there seems an ever-ready supply of such works as the one before us. Written in indifferent English, utterly wanting in literary merit of any kind, the whole story absurdly improbable, it will yet go through one or more editions, and have its run through the circulating libraries. When we say that it is the story of two girls brought up after what is popularly known as Belgravian fashion, and that Lisette's adventure consists in her going with her friend disguised (?) as a lady's-maid to stay with the relations of her own lover, we think we have sufficiently indicated the story's and and aim.
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