16 FEBRUARY 1889, Page 27

A Week in Arcadia. By Eleanor Holmes. (Griffith, Farran, and

Co.)—A party goes to spend a week at some delightful retreat, the " Arcadia " of the tale, and find that even such paradises are disturbed by human passions. It is a complicated and, we should be inclined to think, not very probable story that is the result of the characters of these young people, and of the conditions and circumstances in which they find themselves; but it is certainly told with considerable power, and the characters are drawn with a force that makes them real to us, whatever we may think of the probability of the incidents.