A Daughter of Joel. By Alice Ridley. Longmans' Colonial Library. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ld.
Lady Ridley's novel is considerably above the average of the novels of the year. The question it is devoted to answering is: If " girl murders her grandfather, and is never even suspected of the crime, can she gradually come to forget it and lead a happy life afterwards? The heroine of Lady Ridley's novel, the "daughter of Jacl," is in every way: a charming English girl. She and her brother, to whom she is devotedly attached; are orphans and they live with their grandfather in " large house in the coun-fry. The old man is bedridden, but hi intellect is as rand active as ever;
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