16 NOVEMBER 1878, Page 23

Guilty, or .Not Guilty ? By Major-General W. G. Hawley.

(Black- wood and Sons.)—This is scarcely as good a story as we should have expected from General Hamley's pen. Doubtless, it is really founded on fact, though, indeed, it does not claim to be so. But it seems to us that the writer has come across a true story which seemed to promise sufficient materials for a work of this kind, but failed to do so, when brought to the test. We should say that it would have been more effective, if told after the fashion of a cause calibre.