16 MAY 1891, Page 24

A New Lady Audley. By Austin Fryers. (Swan Sonnenschein and

Co.)—This is a burlesque on the sensational novel, something in the style of the " Prize Novels," and the like, which one sees from time to time in the pages of Punch. But what may pass well enough when it demands only a few minutes from the reader, becomes a different thing when it is expanded into a fair sized volume. A New Lady Audley is clever enough, and, up to a certain point, entertaining; but, to speak plainly, there is too much of it.