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Looranna. By M. A. McCarter. Sydney : George Robertson ; Dunedin: J. Braithwaite. In these days when works of fiction are in a great measure devoted to pandering to the baser human passions, it is pleasant to take up a work in which virtue is held up to our admiration and the frivolities of the idle rich are vigorously condemned. In Looranna, by M. A. McCarter, we have a clean, wholesome story of Australian life, the moral of which is that happiness is only for those -who obey the divine law. The central character in the story is a young Catholic lady, who, on the death of her father, a large landowner, finds herself penniless. This is not the only cross she has to .bear, for her fiance", an English adventurer, disappears without a word of explanation on learning that she had lost her fortune through supposed indiscreet investments of her father. The heroine, Grace Moore, then gets employment as a nursery governess with a family who had known her father in his prosperous days, and here fter troubles begin in real earnest, for the younger
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New Zealand Tablet, 26 November 1908, Page 7
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