A Gentleman of Virginia. By Percy James Brebner. (Mac- millan
and Co. 6s.)—The reader who gathers from the prologue and title of this book that the scene is to pass in Virginia at the close of the War of Independence will be much mis- taken. The first chapter of the story proper transports him to France, and before he knows where he is he will find the hero in Paris during some of the worst days of the Terror, and engaged in all the intrigues and adventures which were inevitable at that time. The picture of the company assembled in Dr. Legrand's lunatic asylum is extremely striking, and the account of the way in which this cruel and treacherous physician amasses a fortune by protect- ing his sane "lunatics" only as long as they can pay his enormous fees makes the reader long that the doctor himself should be forced "to look out of the little window." The book is well written, and in the end, as is more generally the case in novels of the Revolution than in the Revolution itself, the hero and heroine escape from France.
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