ABSTRACT
The tone of the book is serious, at times very sad. This is inevitable when social inequalities and legal injustice combine to form the J>lot; but the author bas handled her matel-ials so skilfully that though the moral purpose of the book is sufficiently apparent, it nowhere mterferes to mar the interest. The beauty and happiness that lie in thorough hard work is throughout brought before us. To us the most interesting part of the story is that which relates the struggles of the two siste~ Millicent ,and Kitty, whom we leave approaching the fulfilment of their wishes in a scantily furnished London lodging (but independent), the one a. student in the London School of' Medicine, the other a reader for the press. The self-possessed energetic temperament of Millicent which is tested to the full by her three years' apprenticeship as nurse in a hospital, might be thought unloveable by those who cannot esteem any but the softer virtues in women. were it not softened by her tender care of her feeble step-mother, and her love for children and the weak and dependent. " Women are generally so hard to one another," some one says:-
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pendent livelihood is frequently and feelingly touched on.
