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THE mere name of this book will lead our readers to a sufficient knowledge of the time and place of the story.

On the banks of the James, we are introduced to two officers in the American service, St. Olmar and Edward Leslie. Edward has a sister Helen, who resides with her guardian and uncle, Walstein, a German by birth, and a royalist of his own free will, and no friend to Edward. While the two friends are talking together, Helen, who is in a boat with her uncle, spies her brother, and, in her eagerness to speak to him, reaches forward, loses her balance, and souse she goes into the water. The uncle takes no concern in the matter, resolving to remain dry and comfortable. But Edward, without waiting "to throw off his external garments (which, we would inform the unlearned, means no more than what are commonly called "outer garments") plunges in. What with exertions to save his sister, a strong eddy, and well soaked regimentals, he in the end finds himself stretched on the bank, his sister, insensible, by his side, and St. Olmar wringing her hair. Had those days been like ours, when ladies wear but little more hair than they pay for, St. Olmar would have been saved his trouble, ay, and the heartach too; for, in that case, though our heroine had gone down loaded with raven or sunny locks, there would presently have come poking above water, a head nearly as smooth as a seal's. But it was not so to be. The Major was fairly caught

in the tangles of this Neæra's hair; and, as she had been over head and ears in water, so fell he over head and ears in love.

There is an English colonel, Clifford by name, a man of wealth and family, to whom Walstein would fain marry his niece, whom the colonel would fain marry; but Helen will neither drown herself nor be run away with for the colonel, and his suit fails. If the truth must be told, St. Olmar had not only saved Helen's life, but was fortunate enough to be wounded, and taken prisoner with Edward; Helen sees him while asleep in her brother's apartment; and what with the interesting languor of his pale face, and what with his finely turned head, her head is turned too; and a light touch "at his brow, to feel if it were still moist and warm," goes straight to her heart. Not an hour on his knees would have done half so much for St. Olmar. This was in the year 1781. According to Theodore Hook, for a man in the nineteenth century to be found on his knees, would be as fatal to his reputation, as it would in any age be ruinous to the character of a horse to be seen in that posture. St. Olmar gets well of his wound; visits Helen; the uncle is absent; Helen is alarmed at the thoughts of a forced marriage with Clifford; St. Olmar, all against his own intentions, declares his love, advises Helen to marry him that very day, and, as he had been exchanged, to set off with him for camp. This was doing up things a little more hastily than did "my uncle-father and aunt-mother;" but Helen is a girl of spirit, and makes up her mind to it. While the ceremony is going on, Maude Mansel, a strange, wild woman (of whom more hereafter) rushes in, and declares St. Olmar and Helen, as Patrick would say, to be brothers. St. Olmar leaves the room; Helen faints, as she should do, and is carried off by Maude. St. Olmar, inconsolable at his sudden disappointment, goes to bed and to sleep. Maude, it seems, had a son Rupert, whom she was determined should marry Helen, who, from all accounts, was in great peril of being married to all the men in the colony, whether she would or not. Finally, Yorktown is taken; the British depart; Rupert dies of his wounds; his strange mother follows him; St. Olmar turns out to be the cousin of Helen; discovers his father in an old friend and protector, a Frenchman of wealth and high rank, and is married; and Walstein, who is obliged to fly the country on account of his crimes, notwithstanding his dislike of a wetting, is lost at sea.

If in making this slight analysis, we should appear to our author, whom we understand to be a lady, to have set lightly by her story, we do assure her, it "is no such matter." She must