LINDSAY'S GIRL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 53

LINDSAY'S GIRL.

By Mrs Herbert Martin. Macmillan's Colonial Library, Danedin : James Horsburgh. This is a book worth reading. A fresh and innocent girl is reared by a worn-out roue. She is his illegitimate daughter by one of the servants, and after her birth be pensions the mother and lives apart not only from his wife, but from all society except a few congenial male f liends. But he dies suddenly, and though leaving his daughter comparatively ricb, healso leaves her to fight the prejudices of the world, especially that exclusive portion usually found in an aristocratic country part where the vicar's titled wife is sovereign. The mental struggles of the girl are ably portrayed. She nearly makes a faux pas at the outEet by falling in love with a youog and aristocratic guardsman, but is saved by her drunken mother appearing on the scene and killing his attachment. Ultimately her father's intimate friend, a good man nevertheless, who voluntarily abdicates title and position to work in the alums, saves her, and as his wife she becomes purged of her passionate rebellion against society, and develops her capacity for good. The story may be a little risky, bub the firmness with which the characters are drawn compensates for it.