A Tragic Blunder. By Mrs. Lovett-Cameron. 3 vols. (F. V.
White and Co.)—This story may be described as an adaptation to the circumstances of nineteenth-century fiction of the main idea of the Comedy of Errors. Rupert Carroll and Lord Nether- ville, sons of twin sisters, are so amazingly alike that their friends do not know them apart. Lord Notherville denies all knowledge of a young lady to whom his cousin has been making love. On the other hand, the real lover is mistaken for the nobleman, and so injured that he loses his memory. Hine alaa lacrymo3. However, things put themselves right. Obstacles are removed, and the story ends with the customary marriage-bells. One criticism on the plot we may venture to make. " If I don't hear from you by first poet to-morrow, I shall know it's all right," says Mr. Taunton to Irene, who has been telling him of her un- willingness to marry him. Next morning he is found dead with the letter which she has written—having seen meanwhile her first lover—unopened in his hand. Irene is exceedingly thankful that it was unopened; but was not the mere fact of its having come proof enough that something was wrong ? "If I don't hoar from from you by first post," he had said.
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