21 DECEMBER 1889, Page 21

Rose Mervyn. By Anne Beale. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)— A

story laid in Wales at the time of the Rebecca Riots is some- what of a rarity, and has, therefore, two reasons for being inter- esting. Besides this, the writer is sure to have some lively and natural characters and incidents, and to make them talk, and to play them off against each other. The necessary love-story is not forgotten; indeed, there are three, we believe, and they all end happily. The most attractive features of Rose Mervyn are the native characters, who are decidedly Welsh ; these and Rebecca the author contrives to depict with much sympathy, and certainly surrounds them thoroughly with the air of the Principality.