12 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 25

Brueton's Bayou. By John Habberton. (Chatto and Windna)-- The heroine

of this tale is something of a Juliet, her Romeo being a young gentleman from New York who has coma South on badness, and meets his fate, and a very pleasant fate too. It in a study of manners, chiefly, of course, interesting to Transatlantic readers. It is they who, we presume, most need to learn that the New York ideal of a gentleman may be held too exclusively, so as to shut out types of culture and good manners which are, to say the least, equally deserving of the name. Still, an English reader with a taste for the novel of character, will find this pleasant reading, and will, in par- ticular, carry away a grateful recollection of the old negro, " Wike," of whom Mr. Habberton makes a very effeotive sketch.