15 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 43

Rex Raynor. By Silas R. Hocking. (F. Warne and Co.)—If

we are to have children changed at nurse, an incident which has been a little too much used in fiction, it is better to have it frankly done in the first chapter, as is the case in Rex Raynor, than brought in as a surprise, which commonly surprises no one, in the last. Rex is a fine character, and, knowing the secret of his birth, wo follow his development with peculiar interest. The tale is of more than average merit.