11 MARCH 1893, Page 25

Life in Him Yet, By H. J. St John Raikes,

(irrowsmith.)— The old incidents of an enforced signature to a will, and a fly in the dead man's mouth, are made to do duty once more, but we must say a very good story has been made out of them. The examination and cross-examination in court, whatever its pro- bability and reasonableness, in consequence of a " caveat " having been entered, is cleverly worked up to a climax, when, at the last moment, counsel beats down a witness's guard. For this sensa- tion, and other details in which sundry parcels are dropped about and mislaid in a most unlikely manner, Life in /Ent Yet will serve to pass an hour pleasantly.