Ingerstein Hall and Chadwick Rise: a Story of the Thirty
Years' War. By James Routledge. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Mr. Routledge is resolved to have a sufficiently copious subject. The "Thirty Years' War" is not enough for him, and he accordingly brings in pretty well the whole of the seventeenth century. We become acquainted with the two neigh- bouring families of the " Hall " and the "Rise," somewhere about the time when the Elector Palatine of Bavaria is in extremity, and we part from them in the last days of the Stuarts. There is plenty of incident, told with some vigour, and though there is nothing remarkably powerful in the drawing of the characters, yet they are natural personages, whom it is quite possible to conceive of as having been actually alive. Gustavus Adolphus is the great hero of the book, though the writer in dealing with him keeps to the lines of historical truth.
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