22 SEPTEMBER 1894, Page 24

We have to notice two editions of short stories by

Mr. George R. Sims, both published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. These are Memoirs of a Landlady and My Two Wives. The " Memoirs" are a collection of queer experiences collected in the course of letting apartments by a certain Mrs. Jarvis. She tells them in the sort of rambling style which such person would be likely to use, and in the imitation of which Mr. Sims is very skilful. The stories are distinctly clever, and the whole collection is decidedly a success. " Rats" is particularly good. We cannot, in honesty, speak so well of My Two Wives. There are good things in it, " The White Dog," for instance ; but the others are scarcely up to the mark which we expect in Mr. Sims's work.