13 MARCH 1880, Page 24

In Sheep's Clothing. By Mrs. Harry Bennett-Edwards. 3 vols. (Samuel

Tinsley.)—Here we have a melodramatic story, which seems to us to bear no relation to real life. A young girl, who has grown up with a belief that the last of the Aylmers (who owns the mansion of the place) is an unconvicted murderer, meets the man when he visits England incognito, falls in love with him (quite unaccountably, for there is not a single attraction in him, as he is here represented), and after marriage finds out the secret. There are other things in the story, and other characters fill up the scene; but these are the most prominent. The style is above the lowest literary level, but the tale as a whole is about as unreal and as uninteresting as any that we have read.