14 SEPTEMBER 1895, Page 25

Out of Egypt. By Percy Hemingway. (Elkin Mathews.)- " Gregorio,"

the tale which occupies about three-fourths of the volume, is a most repulsive story of murder and lust. Some time ago we should have wondered that any one should have been found to write and to publish matter so revolting to taste, so opposed, as it seems to us, to all canons of art, but, in this respect, our faculty of astonishment has been exhausted. It seems a pity that a writer who can do so well as the sonnet, " Ay, truly to the Golden East I go," seems to prove, should descend to such depths as "Gregorio" exhibits.