20 DECEMBER 1890, Page 25

The White Lady of Hazelwood. By Emily S. Holt. (John

F. Shaw.)—This is an attempt—and, on the whole, a very successful attempt—to reproduce, in the form of an essentially religious historical fiction, the last and miserable days of Marguerite of Flanders, who in her time, as Countess of Montfort, had played a part, if not as heroic, at least as manly as that of Joan of Arc, and who was treated in her old age much as Lear was treated by Goneril and Regan. There is an unnecessary amount of padding in this story ; but the final and revolting exhibition of ingratitude on the part of Marguerite's son is remarkably powerful.