23 AUGUST 1884, Page 27

lElp Hill and Down Dale. By Edith L. Chamberlain. (Remington

and Co.)—We fancy this is a young lady's first book. We wish it were possible to say that it promises for the future novels that might reward the labour of wr:ting them. Bur we cannot say this, for the writer seems to us to be deficient in all that goes to the making of a novelist.