1 Know a Maiden. By Madame Albanesi. (Methuen and Co.
6s.)—In her present novel Madame Albanesi deals once more with the world of society,—a world with which she is well acquainted. The interest of the book centres rather in Lady Otterburne, a woman of middle age, than in her stepdaughter, Sara Lavington, who is technically the heroine. An element of melodrama is introduced by Lady Otterburne being possessed of a .very uncomfortable mystery, which she thinks a perfectly unconscious young man from Australia may at any moment
reveal to a startled world. Her fear is enough to give the unfortunate lady a stroke of paralysis, and in the end the Australian young man marries the stepdaughter. There is a good deal of charm about the pictures of Sara's life in the schoolroom, and the heroine is altogether an attractive figure. The book, while not quite equal to some of its author's former works, is both readable and pleasing, facts for which it is impossible in these days to be too grateful.
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