1 DECEMBER 1877, Page 23

Gabriel's Appointment. By Anna M. Drury. (Bentley.)—Mise Drury gives us

in this novel a readable but somewhat puzzling book. She has made hor plot unisecessarilY and indeed wearisomely compli- cated, so that its ramifications are difficult to follow ; and so many people are concerned in its development, and they arc divided into so many different sets, that one feels as if one were reading two stories simultaneously. There is a great deal of cleverness in the dovioes of Gabriel's; enemies, and much ingenuity in the foiling of them by his friends, but the web is over tangled.