19 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 11

A Woman's Word. By Dora M. Jones. (Oliphant, Anderson, and

Ferrier.)—Mary Deverell gives her word to a Guy Chevelay, a young man who has no intellectual solidity or moral strength. He takes up opinions more because they are extreme than because they approve themselves to his reason, and he is unable to resist the passing caprice of the moment. In short, we have in this tale the old story,—a faithful woman, a fickle man. There are certain complications which serve to make out the necessary quantity of matter, and they are treated with sufficient skill ; but the central idea of A Woman's Word might have been presented better without them.