The Duchess. By the Author of "Molly Bawn." (Hurst and
Blackett.)—There is but little to distinguish this story from pre- ceding works by the same author. Like them, it is full of Irish character, Irish brogue, and the linked sweetness of Irish love unconscionably long drawn-out, although there is perhaps in it a little more than usual of Irish crime. The all but accom- plished murder of Denis Delaney by the villain Moloney is, indeed, admirably as well as powerfully described. The obstacles which stand in the way of a marriage between Denis Delaney and "the Duchess," who is an Irish girl of the most popular type,— that is, "riante, tender, loving, all in one, so arch too, and so soft and red as roses in June," take even more than the usual time to remove, the most serious of them being the existence of a previous fiancée of Denis's, a vixenish Miss Cazalet. " Dad " and "darling" appear about a hundred times too often in The Duchess.
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