Strange Doings in Strange Places. By divers Authors. (Cassell and
Co.)—Two disappointed and mad lovers, one who disguises himself as a guide and assaults his mountaineering mistress on the brink of a precipice in the High Alps, another who does the same on the top of a ruined belfry; three duels d la mort—one in a deserted gold-mine, another on an iceberg, another in which a murdered man suddenly appears and shoots his murderer—a murderer in a hospital who tries to murder another man alone in the ward with him because he suspects his secret, and other like horrors, will be enough to satisfy the most plum-puddingy appetite for having your flesh made to creep. But the most ardent shilling-shocker devourer, whose sense of improbability has been depraved into next-to-nothingness, would protest against Bob Cheddar's Fate, by Fitzgerald Molloy, which makes an Oxford man become a burglar, not because he has lived the life of a Birchall, but, on the contrary, because being a most unexceptionable young man, he has been rejected by a young woman ; and finally dies because he burgles the house of his former admiration.
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