17 DECEMBER 1892, Page 22

Maud Melville's Marriage. By E. Everett-Green. (Nelson.), This is a

story of the latter part of the seventeenth century. Maud Melville is married, while yet a child, to her cousin Rupert, and Rupert becomes mixed up with the plots contrived for bringing back the dispossessed Stuart dynasty to the throne. The interest of the tale culminates in the escape from prison of Rupert, and in his subsequent pardon by the Queen. The book has merits, but we may suggest that there should have been a certain difference of style between the portions related in the first person and those related in the third. There is no need of any pedantic imitation of seventeenth-century English ; still, Maud Melville's " fragments of autobiography" might have had some distinction about them.