10 JULY 1869, Page 22

Louis de Ripple. By Darlow Foster. (Freeman.)—We have nothing to

say against this tale, but this, that it failed to make any impression upon us, except, indeed, to wonder whether there are yet, or indeed ever have been, schools of a discipline so severely Spartan, that fifty strokes with the cat-o'-nine tails are administered to a delinquent boy.