14 OCTOBER 1893, Page 11

A Modern Agrippa. By Caroline C. White. (j. B. Lippincott,

Phila- delphia.)—" Agrippa," it must be understood, is not the Jewish King, first or second of the name, but Cornelius, the magician. One of the heroines has a magic mirror,-such as his art was wont to create, and it serves her well in a great crisis of her life. But is not this a little out of place in a tale of modern life P The second story, " Patience Barker : a Tale of Old Nantucket," seems to us more successful.