10 APRIL 1875, Page 24

Rupert Redmond. By Walter Sims Southwell. 3 vole. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This

is, we are told, a "Tale of England, Ireland, and America." While he is at home, Mr. Southwell is, we are bound to say,. extremely tedious. The earlier chapters of the first volume are about as great offenders in this way as anything that we have ever read or to read. In America, he gets into the current of the civil war, and has, perforce, to move a little quicker. But Rupert Redmond is not a book that we can recommend, except to readers of the most patient disposition and of the amplest leisure.