15 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 23

Traitor or Patriot. By Mary C. Rowsell. (Blackie and Son.)—

Miss Rowsell tells here, with some additions and fillings-in of her own, the story of the Rye-House Plot. The principal dramatis per- some are Master Rambold, maltster,—who is one of the prime movers of the plot,—Ruth Rumbold, his daughter, and Lawrence Lee, a young farmer, who has been drawn, half-unknowing, into the scheme, but repents to good purpose of his share in it. The writer has made a careful study of the times—though she might have avoided the mistake of saying that "the father of Lawrence Lee had died fighting for King Charles I. on Worcester Field"—and tells her tale with some vivacity.