On London Stones. By Catherine March. (Clarke and Co.)— Ninon
Varondie's father is a leading member in a secret political society, and she is a young woman of a very strong will and decided character. How she contrives to love so very feeble a creature as Randal Lowry it is not easy to say, except on some general theory of feminine waywardness. But the fact may be accepted, for it serves as the starting-point of a good story. Of course, we know at the beginning that Jocelyn Woodcourt, P.C., for all his modesty, and the scar of a sabre-cut which disfigures his face, is not going to come off second best. Still, we follow the progress of events with plenty of interest. We must say that one or two things in the story are somewhat grotesque. Bob Holliday, with his queer signals to show whether he is drunk or sober, looks like. one of Charles Dickens's least happy creations. We would remark, too, that a sergeant of artillery, after an exemplary record of fifteen years, has no need to "buy himself out of the service," as Mr. Dunn is said to have done. Simla, too, is not exactly the spot in India which one would choose as the place where Mr. Dunn had " twice nursed the Major through malarial fever."
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