17 MARCH 1888, Page 24

Dominic Penteme, By Godfrey Buret:lett. (Vizetelly and Co.)— There is

nothing much to be said about Mr. Barchett's one-volume story, except that it is very melodramatic, very sensational, wildly improbable, and in all other respects decidedly commonplace. It is fall of horrors, but even the horrors are not conceived with sufficient imagination to be really impressive.