20 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 21

The Late Miss Hollingford. By Rosa Mulholland. (Blaokie and Son.)—This

tale appeared many years ago in AU the Year Round, and was honoured by being printed in the same volume of the Tauchnitz collection with Charles Dickens's "No Thoroughfare." It is a good story, and worth republication. There is novelty in the central idea,—a girl, dismayed at the ruin and disgrace which through her father's wrong-doing has overtaken her family, hides herself from her friends, and reappears under circumstances which lead to curious complications. And this idea is worked out with such skill that, though a French translator was not far wrong in altering the title to " Une Idea Fantastique," the reader is willing to accept it without question as he goes on.