17 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 40

Dame Primrose. By " A Primrose Dame." (George Potter.)— In her

preface, the authoress tells us that she has "no ambition to imitate the inimitable," meaning, we suppose, "The Vicar of Wakefield." If this be the case, it is not easy to account for the appearance of Dame Primrose. An imitation it certainly is, in style if in nothing else, and a very poor one too. We think it a pity that "A Primrose Dame" did not attempt a sequel to some work not quite so famous as Goldsmith's masterpiece. It would have been less painful to her readers, and she herself would not have suffered quite so much by comparison with the original. On the artifice which is apparently resorted t in her nom de plume it is unnecessary to comment.