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320 Her first work went into a second edition in a couple of weeks, and has since passed into many more. It brought, as her later books have done, many letters of commendation from unknown correspondents in Tasmania, America, and other countries. A sequel is entitled. Mary Fenwick's Daughter' (now in its third edition), wherein the reader meets again with renewed interest the old friends who proved so fascinating in the former story.

The peculiar sensation of quiet and peace in the views around her beloved and native county Devon, where most of her work was done, has largely influenced the life and work of Beatrice Whitby. With a keen sense of humour and an intuitive perception of peculiarities, alike in persons and in things, she has a strong appreciation of the beauties in nature, which she has cultivated to the uttermost. No effect or scenc cscapes her notice. Her characters are at once natural and casy, while the purity and innocence of the tone in no way detracts from their vigour and interest.

Beatrice Whitby is, like her novel, in the suntime of her youth.' Much of her life is in front of her. If, while yet in her tecns, she could write such a story as 'Part of the Property,' and follow it some few years later by The Awakening of Mary Fenwick,' what possibilities may not be in store for her in the future?

is scarcely a corner in Mr. á Beckett's bright and artistic house, standing in the west side of Eccleston Square, that is not fraught with relics and memories of a peculiarly interesting and eventful career. The ball and staircase are lined with framed collections of valuable letters, pictures, autographs, and etchings—reminiscences from most of the well-known people of the day as well as of those who have gone before.