Firm in the Struggle. By Emma Pickering. 3 vols. (Newby.)
— There must be something particularly fascinating, to judge from the frequency with which the plot occurs, in the notion of a young man of old family, left with an utterly-impovei ished estate, and winning his way back to the old honours and position of his ancestors. Such is the plot of Firm in the Struggle, which, we should say, is not at all above, and not much below, the average of the dozen or twenty novels of the same kind which we have seen in the last few years. We cannot say that it makes very interesting reading, but it is not objectionable. We found the characters tedious, bat it is only fair to them to say that they are not given to atrocious acts. Even the villain of the story is not very violently bad; and the nearest approach to a crime is a suspicion of bigamy, actual bigamy being, however, avoided by a very respectable interval of time. The book, in short, has no very serious fault beyond that of having been published.
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