The Master Passion. By Florence Marryat. 3 vols. (F. V.
White and Co.)—This is a very old story told again with a certain change in the circumstances. A young wife in the Black Country leaves her husband in a fit of rage, and leaves her infant son also. She marries some one else, imagining herself to be free, and years afterwards she discovers both husband and son. We do not mean that Miss Marryat has taken her plot from any one ; but this kind of thing is certainly familiar to every reader of novels. What is new is the scene, which is laid in the United States of America. This gives the author an opportunity of renewing her impressions of that country, impressions not by any means uniformly favourable. It is to be hoped that Mr. Oscar Bergbeim is not an average sample of American hotel.keepere, nor the life and company described at the Hotel Musselburgh such as are commonly to be found on the other side of the Atlantic.
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