Olga ; or, Wrong on Both Sides. By Viii. Vincent.
(Griffith, Ferran, Browne, and Co.)—The Earl of Grantown and his son, Lord Tempeston, are certainly as awkward a pair as ever had to live together. The author is quite impartial in making them both as wrong-headed as he well could. The story is naturally not an agreeable one ; the story of such people could not be ; but there is really an unnecessary brutality—we can call it nothing else—in the ii th of the heroine. Such things are not really pathetic; they are simply shocking. The author means well, and indeed has something to teach ; but a little more tact and taste would be an advantage. We should not have anything so banal as this :—" Helen is married, and lives happily at Salisbury, in the Cathedral close, with her husband, a talented and wealthy Canon."
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