14 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 24

Paul Sterne. By Cecily Powell. (J. and R. Maxwell.)—This is

another love-story, based on an unhappy and unlawful attachment, which leaves the heroine victorious, but forlorn. The tale opens very wordily, and with a copious interlarding of French expressions. We have not observed anything in the way of subsidiary merits which we can point to as relieving the sombre and not very natural course of the story, and do not think that our readers would find in the perusal of it either a pleasant or profitable employment of their time. .