18 FEBRUARY 1893, Page 25

The Shifting of the Fire. By Ford H. Ilueffer. (Fisher

Unwin.) —The heroine marries an old millionaire because her lover having become suddenly poor, she is forbidden to marry him, and she thinks she may got the old man's money. It is a dangerous thing to attempt, and the feelings of both. men may be imagined. The old man determines to torture his wife, and accordingly reveals his past life. He dies soon, however, and all ends well. Mr. Hueffer writes well, and occasionally his epigrammatic mode of expression is happy. Some of the characters are sketched with plenty of force, and the story is good reading from beginning to end.