Dominique's Vengeance. By E. E. Green. (Nelson and Sons.)—The story
opens in France about the end of the sixteenth century, when party feeling ran so high between the Guises and the Huguenot families. Dominique de Gourges frustrates the nefarious design of a hated neighbour, who is half-Spanish by birth, and a duel is the result. Dominique nearly kills his opponent, and has to fly, and thenceforth consecrates his life to vengeance on the villain and Spaniards generally. He executes signal vengeance on his enemies for the massacre of a French colony, and has various adventures as a galley-slave and in other capacities. It is an interesting tale with considerable historical fact as a foundation, and told with the writer's usual vigour. The vengeful feelings of the hero are rather too much emphasised,—indeed, he might very reasonably be accused of having as much Spanish as French blood in his veins ; nevertheless, it is a stirring story, full of action, picturesque description, and striking incident.
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