Hubert von Herkomer, A Young Girl and Her Dog
An impecunious baronet takes in a difficult French orphan girl reputed to be his hostile neighbor’s niece.
For Beale, see Novel 60. The first two volumes of this novel are excellent, with striking characters, especially the French girl heroine, placed in dramatic situations—excellent enough to make up for the third, which loses itself in idiotic lovers’ misunderstandings and tedious sentimental fantasy.
“Fay is not an unattractive heroine . . . and her freaks as a child are amusing.” Graphic, October 23, 1875
A novel with “really fine studies, drawn to the life, and from beginning to end full of vitality and individuality.” Spectator, January 2, 1892 (the novel was then republished).
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