Under False Colours. By Sarah Doudney. (Blackie and Son.) —Two
schoolgirls, sitting together one afternoon, plan a venture- some scheme, nothing less than a deliberate imposture. Miss Dysart, one of the girls, an invalid, and unable to accept an in- vitation to a country house, persuades her friend to pass herself off as Miss Dysart. The plan succeeds at first without a hitch, till love, "the greatest marplot that ever was," as one of the characters remarks, interferes. The impostor, though not discovered, leaves, and meanwhile the real Miss Dysart has died on her way out to India, and the unfortunate lover is distracted. He, however, sees his lady-love's face in a shop, and is much puzzled. Finally, all ends well. Miss Doudney, it will be seen, has made a powerful situation, and has certainly constructed on it a very readable story, with some clever and pathetic touches of character.
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