Rhoda Broughton

Dear Faustina Rhoda Broughton

Miss Broughton indicates with great skill how the limitations, the prejudices, and the stupidity of an average family circle may easily impel a generous nature to find vent for its altruistic energies in the field of philanthropical endeavour... The denouement brings to an artistic and natural close a study of contemporary manners which will certainly enhance the author's reputation as an alert and penetrating observer of her sex. The satire of 'Dear Faustina' is keen, merciless, and clever, and it is so good-natured that all, save, possibly, the 'dear Faustinas' themselves, can join in the laugh that is raised at their expense. Miss Broughton has the rare gift of being able to grasp and interpret a situation humorously, and the pathos, without which no life and no story is complete, does not suffer the more from this fact.