Her One Ambition, By Rowland Grey. (Raphael Tuck and Sons.)—The
author of "Lindenblumon " has given us a really excellent little story. Barbara Meyrick's one ambition is the success of her brother. She surpasses him in ability ; but her only thought is to make her powers subserve his. She works with him, prompts him by her own industry and enthusiasm to greater energy ; and, wholly without thought of self, is perfectly content when he achieves the aim which she might have more easily her- self achieved. Her reward comes when she hears that he has attained the highest mathematical honours that Cambridge has to give. It is a pathetic touch that she learns at the same time that this beloved brother has found seine one who is dearer to him oven than the sister who had so helped him. As for herself, no thought but for him had ever come into her head. A truly pathetic story this, not out of place, perhaps, in these days when women's rights and claims are so prominently put forward. It may be that "Barbara Meyrick's ambition" was, after all, the more excellent way.
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