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The Ghost of an Old Love. By Violet Whyte. 3

vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—This novel might perhaps have been more appropriately called " A Father's Troubles." Mr. Kennedy, a country squire, has

five pretty daughters, and they certainly give hint a vast amount of bother and vexation. It is true, he adds to these troubles by his own obstinacy and folly in rejecting the application of a very eligible suitor, whom one of the five is inclined to love. The story is a very lively and readable one; the conversation of these young ladies is very smart and well managed ; there is just the right admixture of pathos ; altogether, The Ghost of an Old Love, without being anything very great or profound, is a success.