Sir Guy's Ward. By Gerald Glyn. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)--
When a young lady, beautiful beyond description, comes to be the ward of a guardian who is very like a Van-Dyck portrait of a Spanish noble, it is not difficult to see what is going to happen, even though the guardian is prematurely grey and profoundly depressed by a great sorrow. Of course there must be some difficulty interposed, and we must take leave to criticise the way in which this part of the story is managed. Of course we know that Gerald Leigh, the younger lover, who catches Maud's fancy for a while, is unworthy of her, but the manner of his unworthiness strikes us as something quite improbable. No English gentleman, however careless of morality, would have acted as a go-between in an adulterous intrigue carried on by his brother. This is the only novelty about Sir Guy's Ward, and it is not an attractive one.
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