Si. Knighton's Keive : a Cornish Tale. By the Rev.
F. Talbot O'Donoghue, B.A. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—It is a little too much to ask people to believe that a -wealthy baronet and banker in the nine-
teenth century would venture to send his wife to live with a deaf and dumb companion in a solitary cottage, and to keep her immured there
from all intercourse with the outer world, and a great deal too much to
ask them to believe that the wife would not ran away. As she could write to her Aunt Carry she could have taken refuge with her, and there can be no doubt of her right to a divorce and separate main- tenance on the writer's own statement of the facts. Waiving this impro- bability, the tale is one of some promise. There is a good deal of humour in the account of the ways of Cornish dissenters and Cornish parsons, a curious list of Cornish words at the end of the volume, and no attempt at fine writing.
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