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Ingelow. PIP. 666. Boston Roberts
Bros. From A. L. Bancroft & Co.
All who have read and loved Miss Ingel-
ow's exquisite poems will feel desire to
read her FIRST novel. 1t is delightful story,
particularly the first half of the volume
which is very original and amusing. Two
children, boy and girl are left almost en-
tirely to the care of a nurse who permits
them to do about as they please. The boy
Tom is wonderfully precocious, is fond Of
Shakespeare, etc. and all knowledge
being at length interdicted in consequence
of severe fit of sickness, he teaches his
baby sister, who can not yet speak plainly,
to say" Brutus and Cassius." This too, is
at length forbidden, and whenever the chill
dren asked any questions they were told by
the nurse that they were not to know any
thing whatsoever" As they grow older
they become more and more odd, actually
frightening away one poor tutor whom they
had offered to teach new language which
they had invented between them. At length
they were placed in care of an uncle and ia
ken on his yacht where they were soon sep
arated, Dorothea being sent to school until
she reached the age of nineteen. 1t is short
y after her return to the yacht that they
save number of passengers from burning
ship, and one of these, Mr.. Brandon, CRATE
full for the attention he received, and more
than half in love with Dorothea. who had
taken care Of his burnt arm, brings his IA
ther on board to make their acquaintance,
and he subsequently invites Tom and Doro-
thea to visit his family. There Mr.. Bran
don's young brother, grown-up boy, falls
in love with Dorothea, and although entirely
unworthy of her. by his persistency and in
consequence of Dorothea's LONELINESS, at last
prevails; but just before the wedding takes
place, he discovers that he loves some one
else, and Dorothea, free again, is made hap
Ply by the love of Mr.: Brandon who has
cared for her all the time, but who kept 81
lent because he would not interfere with his
brothers prospects, and because he imagin-
ed at the first that Dorothea had really
fallen in love with that boy. This all ends
satisfactorily. The only disappointment we
feel is in having Tom care so little for his
sister after she returned from school, when
they had been everything to each other be-
fore. Then he marries disreputable girl,
and that ruins him. We don't see why Tom
was made to turn out 80 badly when he was
such splendid" little boy. In conclusion
we only add that the story must be read to
be appreciated.
MEMOIRS OF MADAME DESCRIBES VALMoRE.
By the late G. A. Saint-Beuve. With a
selection from her poems. Translated by
Harriet w. Preston. PIP. 227. Boston:
Roberts Bros. From A. L. Bancroft & Co.
This lady in early life was an actress, but
after her marriage she devoted her time to
writing and was much esteemed as poet
ess by her countrymen. She is but little
known with US, but some of her poems as
here translated are very beautiful, and the
memoir is one of considerable interest One
drawback to the success of the book is the
constant allusion to deep sorrow which We
are not permitted to know. In fact there is
but little of the personal history of Madame
Valmore given, the author being content to
make us understand her character and abili-
ties and to show the estimation in which she
was held by other writer's of distinction.