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    62 -NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    A. Life For A Life. By The Author Of " J...

    which chap enter ter a even protest being in 1 " against His the Story practised the , " another use hands of this " of Her Miss clumsy Story MuIocIl : " and and inefficient , here mars we the would form dra- ,

    . matic , action and interest of the book . The imental hero , Max _Urquhart in the , M . D ., at is introduced Shorneeliff to the the period reader being as a

    regsurgeon camp , man shortl of y after reserved the nature close of , silent the Crimean and grave war , . yet He spite is represented of his unsocial as a know

    character and habits he is held in high estimation by all who him That , and he is is sincerel the depository y beloved of by some some fatal among secret his is fellow evident -officers from . the

    first , and , as the tale proceeds , we learn that in early youth he was the unintentional cause of death to a profligate man , some years

    his senior , and into whose society he was for a short time accidentally thrownThis deathoccurring in the middle of Salisbury Plain ,

    with no . one present , but their two selves , passes as the result of an accidentand the friends of the deceased bury their trouble

    and disgrace , in a grave near the spot , and , removing into another countall trace of the existence of the profligate soon becomes lost .

    y , acquainted Aniong the , nei is g a hbours clergyman with 's whom famil the y , whose officers youngest from the daug camp hter are ,

    Theodora Johnstonis the heroine and narrator of " Her Story : " and in this Miss Mulo , ch evinces considerable knowledge of human

    nature and her art . The misfortune of his youth , acting upon a sensitive mind and conscience , and a naturally reserved disposition , has assumed in the of Dr . Urquhart the proportions of a murder ;

    exp and iation , locking , upon the eyes fatal a life secret of in isolation his own from breast all , he famil determines y ties and , in

    affections . ] N " ow Theodora , the younger and plainer sister of a motherless familis herselffrom natural circumstancesin a position of

    considerable y , isolation , also very and thus we find the , twohero and heroine , seeking souls companionshi , in p the and fo consolation of in ournal the _^ outpourings , which

    of their upon paper rm a j , , on Dr . Urquhart ' s side , soon comes to be kept for Theodora ' s eyes , though it may never reach her hands till he is dead and gone .

    This need of love and companionship knawing at the hearts of a man and woman thrown frequently into each other ' s society , leads of course to an instinctive recognition , and it is not long before Max

    and Theodora become all in all to each other , though the fatal secret on his part prevents any acknowledgment between them . met Then his too end , the on similarit Salisbury y of Plain name — born Theodora by Theodora Johnston , and , Willi he who am

    Henry Johnston—gives rise to a sickening dread , lest the same blood should flow in their veins . A dread subsequently confirmed : for William Henry Johnston turns out to be the son of Theodora's

    father This disc a ove first r marriage takes la . ce at the end of the second volumeand y p ,

    62 -Notices Of Books.

    62 -NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/62/