14 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 25

A Great Revenge. By Sidney Mary Sitwell. (S.P.C.K.) —There is

some effective pathos in this book. Richard Glover bears false witness against his friend, Oswald Grey. A time comes when Oswald has an opportunity of requiting this injury, and he does so by saving the man's life. The fault of the story is that it has some- thing of the appearance of having been made up to suit the moral, rather than of the moral growing naturally out of the story. The whole scene at the club, for instance, does not look like actual life. It is not thus, we take it, that men's misdeeds are really punished. At the same time, there is, without doubt, some very effective writing in the tale.