17 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 24

Chloe. By Darley Dale. (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)—This is a

"Comedy of Errors." It will not injure the interest of the story if we give the chief motive. Mr. Paul Dursley is a country practitioner, and Mr. Peter Dursley, created Sir Peter Dursley shortly after the story has begun, is a London physician of great reputation, and the two are twins precisely alike. Sir Peter is called in to see a certain Sir John Dane, who is his brother's patient, and prescribes for him two scruples of opium when he should have written two grains. Beyond this we shall not follow Mr. Darley Dale's amusing story, with its endless mis- understandings and perplexities. There is possibly a little too much of it; the joke gets a little threadbare; but it will be found readable.