16 JUNE 1888, Page 23

Philip Alwyne, by J. Knox Sherrard (Sonnenschein and Co.), is

a rather milk-and-watery story by a writer who has apparently devoted some time to the study of the works of Miss Yonge and Mrs. Ewing, but is not fortunate enough to possess either the imaginative or the literary powers of those distinguished writers. The picture and motto business is hackneyed, and the use made of it here is sentimental and ineffective.