.1 Girl of Resource. By Eyre Hussey. (Longmans and Co.
6s.1 —Mr. Eyre Hussey's title most accurately describes his heroine if it is to be taken in the sense that she is always ready with an appropriate quotation. She also has a habit of inflicting enormous stories on her interlocutors. She is otherwise an agreeable person ; but it must be owned that she is as persistent as Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." Though she cannot be called "disdainful," she yet lays herself open to the taunt which annoyed Beatrice so exceedingly, that she "has her good wit out of a hundred merry tales." The whole novel is curiously solid reading for a story which is really only an account of commonplace modern life. Perhaps it is the heroine's anecdotes which make it every now and then tedious. The book is not quite equal to "Miss Badsworth, F.H.," in which the author exploited an original idea ; but it is agreeable, and would be even more so had it been a little shorter.
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