Rhoda Broughton

Mrs. Bligh Rhoda Broughton

No one of Miss Broughton's stories has given us so much pleasure as this; not even 'Nancy, ' which is probably her best; not even 'Doctor Cupid, ' which is no doubt the most interesting of her novels. In this novel she has been truer to this principle than in any other of her works, and it is this quality which makes us say 'Mrs. Bligh' will give more pleasure than any other of the series. The book is a truer picture of woman's love, of her sacrifice of it to a girl, and of the woman's only possible reward, than any Miss Broughton has yet given us. Time, practice, and a sense of literary art have produced in her a form of skill in writing which is apparent upon every page of her new story. How the story is worked out Miss Broughton's readers will see for themselves, and we repeat that she has given them a novel more worthy of remembrance than any she has yet writte