12 JANUARY 1884, Page 21

Belgravia this month is certainly strong in fiction. Mrs. Cashel'

Hoey begins a story which promises well. Another story, " The Wearing of the Green," is also opened, but we fear that the "Castle," and the "Nationalists," and other things of which we have quite enough in the newspapers, will be too prominent. Mr. Wilkie Collins contributes an excellent novelette, "She Loves and Lies." We doubt whether the acutest novel-reader will anticipate the sur- prise. "The Denver Express " is a good story of adventurous life in the West of America. Mr. Frank Abell writes an interesting paper on " Tragedy in Japan," Mr. Justin H. M'Cartby describes " A Pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon," and Mr. H. F. Lester makes fan of the Guide-books. There is a spirited, poem "To May," by R. Herne Shepherd.