The ,Seer-et of Two Houses. By Fanny Fisher. (Samuel Tinsley.)
—We wonder whether Mrs. Fisher will over get past the youthful stage of what we may call the cloak-and-slouched-hat romance. There is spirit, some power of delineating character, and a good deal more of constructing a plot ; but the complications are confusing and unneces- sary, and the very remarkable way in which everyone, at all con- ceivable hours of day and night, and in every probable and improbable place, finds himself or herself face to face with some mysterious presence, or with some person particularly desired or particularly not desired at that critical moment, creates a smile at the childishness of the style, rather than the excitement and interest intended. Nor is the subject very choice, since the mysteries all arise from the supposed seduction, years ago, of the mother of the hero, and the further interest consists in the repeated attempt. on the part of the hero, to seduce the heroine, whose principle and ambition together are, however, we are glad to find, sufficient to achieve the victory.
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