Linked at Last. By F. E. Bunnett. (IL S. King.)—This
is a quiet, graceful little love-story. Neste, the heroine, has given, or fancies that she has given, her heart, while yet but a young girl, to a bright young lad, with whom she is brought into close companionship for a few weeks. Her friends set their faces against the attachment, and her love, though she clings to it as loyally as ever, becomes really a thing of the past. But it has life enough to stand in her way when, years afterwards, her real fate presents itself. The conflict in the woman's heart between the fancy and the truth, as in her heart she knows them to be, though she will not acknowledge it to her herself, is drawn with much skill. Mean- while another love-story is going on between Heinrich, son of the well- to-do innkeeper, Herr Messinger, and Rosa, the poor, pretty servant- girl of the inn. The scene of the story is laid chiefly in Germany ; all the figures are prettily and naturally drawn.
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