Fiametta. By W. W. Story. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Story has
given as a sad story in a setting of Italian manners and scenery, given with all the skill which he knows how to employ on such a sub- ject. Fiametta is a beautiful girl, in whom an Italian artist finds the appropriate model of "A Naiad at the Spring," which is to he the great picture of his life. She is one of the women to whom the gift of beauty seems fatally linked with sorrow. Her mother had been deceived, and she herself has in her blood the stirring of discontent with the surroundings into which she had been born. Her trouble is not, indeed, such as was her mother's, for the maa to whom her heart is given is not of the class which deceives ; bat there are social barriers between them, and when love at last seems likely to have its way, it is too late. Fiametta is a beautiful stogy, and its sadness inevitable.
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