10 FEBRUARY 1883, Page 25

Clare Weisman. By the Author of "Pansies and Asphodel." (Remington

and Co.)—The " Clare " of this story is a man, and a sculptor. A great deal of sin, sorrow, death, parting, and unmerited misfortune is piled up in the one small volume to which the writer has restricted herself ; the shadows are rather too deep, perhaps, for a pleasant picture, but the story has a certain merit, and the gleams in it of Quaker people and manners, and of quiet country life and the queer ways of some Dissenting bodies, are agreeable. The author will write well, when she has learned that abruptness is not always forcible, and that brevity is not necessarily wit.