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her father, goes to London and seeks to earn bread

for herself and her little sister by literature; the other also aims at literary success, not because she wants the money, but because she is tired of a dull life at home, and is ambitious. Henrietta No. 1 gets on, not too rapidly—Mrs. Marshall knows better than to make this mistake—but still satisfactorily. Henrietta No. 2 writes a

" problem " novel, for the publishing of which she pays 1.40, and

we need hardly say, does not get on Each has her love affairs and here, too, poetical justice is done, though we are permitted to hope that No. 2 will have her eyes opened to see her true happiness. This is a good story, though not of Mrs. Marshall's best quality.