Kinsfolk and Others. By the Author of "The Atelier du
Lys." (National Society.)—Here we have a social problem, as it may be called, neatly set forth. A girl, just growing into a woman, is claimed by her mother, who had left her as an infant in the charge of her father's mother. She does not understand the circumstances, thinking her mother to blame, whereas it was the imperious selfishness of the father that had caused the alienation. How ought she to act? how will she act? are the questions that have to be answered. The mother has supported herself by teaching, and has a very dear pupil, of whom her daughter is jealous. And then she is sought in marriage by this pupil's father. Altogether there is no little complication ; and we are interested in seeing the skill and good taste with which the tangled skein is unravelled.
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