In Hot Haste. By Mary E. Hullah. 2 vols. (Bentley
and Son.) —Miss Hullah tells an interesting tale here. The scene is laid in Germany ; the heroine is the granddaughter of an impoverished Baron. There is, perhaps, a little improbability in the love-story of the very charming Sabine. For a girl to be married because her lover has to get a wife before a certain date, under pain of losing inheritance, is a hard lot, and, happily, as uncommon as it is hard. But then, it is always difficult to find a reason for making a great separation between husband and wife that does not reflect some discredit on one or the other. Such a separation is the main incident of In Hot Haste, and it is worth an effort to introduce it. The quarrels of lovers are of small account ; those of the married are much more serious and interesting. The second part of the novel is the stronger of the two, but all is good.
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