Friends and Foes. By E. Everett Green. (J. F. Shaw
and Co.) —This is one of the simplest and least ambitious efforts of a writer who has lately made successful inroads into the realms of serious fiction. In truth, it is almost a too familiar story that she tells here,—that of two families that are near neighbours which are at daggers-drawn at first, but in the end become most friendly. It must be allowed, however, that both the young Danverses and the young Leslies are sketched with excep- tional care. Young people who naturally enough like their stories to end happily, may object to the death of poor Lancelot Leslie. even although it paves the way for an act of poetical justice, in the adoption by Mr. Leslie of Harry Danvers as his heir, and on the whole this painful incident might have been avoided. But no other complaint can well be laid to the door of this very plea- sant and thoroughly wholesome story.
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