What Old Father Thames Said. A Novel. 3 vols. By
Coutts Nelson. (Samuel Tinsley.)—In this novel all the personages, scenery, and " effects" of the transpontine drama make their reappearance. We have the wicked baronet, the scheming lawyer, the opportune vagrant (" Whistling Billy "), the keen-eyed, but somewhat fatuous detective, and all the rest of them. The child who is the hero of the story is taken by the " villain " one evening in the " dead of winter through Lincoln's Inn Fields, to one of the dirty narrow streets branching off Drury Lane, and there he lost him,—actually, yea, intentionally, lose him." (The italics are the author's.) Admirers of the "penny-dread- full " school of literature will find here a story to their taste,—to those who prefer a more connected and "reposeful" style, we can hardly recommend it.
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