12 APRIL 1890, Page 24

The Apothecary's Daughters. By Henrik Pontoppidan. Trans- lated from the

Danish by Gordius Nielsen. (Triibner.)—This is a remarkably repulsive story, which it would have been far better to leave in a language which would necessarily have kept the knowledge of it within narrow limits. Some of the dramas and tales which Scandinavia is giving us just now are not things to be grateful for.