10 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

The Forge in the Forest. By Charles G. D. Roberts.

(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a second edition of a very picturesque story, a romance of Acadia in the days when England and France were still contending for the mastery in North America. The Seigneur de Briart, otherwise Jean de Mer, and the "Black Abbe" are historical, or at least traditional, figures, and well portrayed. The illustrations are mostly good, but surely the young lady with the bare arms and open jacket, Liberally displaying the bust, was about as bad an imitation of "a handsome stripling" as has ever been seen since the art of disguise was first practised.