12 SEPTEMBER 1874, Page 22

Flora Cheviot : a Novel. By Anna M. de Jones.

(Morgan and' Hebron.)—This is a harmless, not very intelligible story, written in long and involved sentences. It is well-meant, but not interesting, and the moral is more comprehensible than the narrative, whioh is not desirable in a novel. Miss de Jongh has tried to walk at a stage of her literary life to which the proverbial creeping would have been the only suitable method of progression. A short story in a minor magazine is the utmost which we find indicated as within her ability- by the present specimen.