.Toy Cometh in the Morning. By Algernon Gissing. 2 vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—A wicked uncle keeps his blind niece shut
up in a lonely manor-house, her only companion being the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. These are constrained to secrecy by the heavy indebtedness of the farmer to the uncle. But there are other influences at work. The vicar of the parish is determined
to set everything right ; the blind girl's half-brother drops from the clouds. Finally, all is well, except that one of the farmer's
daughters is jilted, and another dies for no particular reason.
There is a good deal of love-making. The kisses are very precisely described. It may be mentioned that the very good young man of the book "took the young girl's hand and, kissed it." The other salutes were of a warmer kind. The story is somewhat improbable, and written in such a style that we doubt whether "Algernon Gissing " is really as manly a name as it sounds.
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