19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 46

Only one serious objection can be laid at the door

of Adam Gorlake's Will, by " C. E. /11." (S.P.C.K.),—it is unconscionably long. Arthur Gorlake, who, under Adam's will, becomes heir to that eccentric gentleman's property, is very interesting, and no is that question, for long undecided, whether or not he has come by that property by making away with another and later will. His sister Carry, his brother the Rev. Frank, Captain Hilton, who allows himself to suspect Arthur's prkity, and Joseph Porter, who is every- body's evil genius, and particularly his own, are also well sketched. But the whole story, good as it is, might have been told in about a third of the apace allotted to it. All the same, it is enjoyable in many parts, and sound in all respects.