The Shadow of Erksdale. By Boulton Marshall. 3 vols. (Samuel
Tinsley.)—The " Shadow " is the fact that the squire of Erksdalo is largely in debt to a certain Dr. Aungier, from whom his father had borrowed a considerable sum of money. The Aungiers have no proof of the obligation, but the squire discovers. a copy of the bond among his family documents, and partly from meanness, partly from dislike for his creditor, determines not to pay. Meanwhile the squire's son fall& in love with the doctor's daughter,—by the way, he is always called. oddly enough, "the practitioner." The complication is increased by the failure of a bank—we always tremble when the good people in a novel have anything to do with a bank—but it is ultimately unravelled,. and everybody is made happy, including a widowed rector, on whom, in the goodness of her heart, the author bestows a second wife. A harmless novel, but certainly dull.
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