23 JANUARY 1897, Page 24

Aylmer Court. By Henley I. Arden. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and

Co.)—This is a story of the time of King v. Commonwealth, in which politics and love are duly compounded together. It is fairly readable. The author should learn to efface herself more ; the reader ought to be able to judge of how the personages of the tale are acting without being helped by the writer's comments. The style needs revision, and the scene of the trial has very little of a judicial appearance.