12 APRIL 1890, Page 25

To Him that Overcometh. By " Mona." (Remington and Co.)— 'There

is merit in this story, though it certainly is not free from faults. One can hardly, perhaps, blame a novelist for using the recognised stock-in-trade of her craft—children changed at nurse, and the rest of it—but she makes real mistakes. So womanly a woman as Dukie would hardly have said, on coming home from church after being married : "Oh, do some one take this foolish veil off; I feel such a donkey in it,"—a "characteristic explano: Lion," the writer calls it, meaning, it is to be presumed, "exclama- tion." But we may hope that it was not characteristic, for it was a very "fast thing" indeed to say.