23 OCTOBER 1886, Page 23

Love, the Pilgrim. By May Crommelin. 3 vole. (Hurst and

Blackett.)—This is a very sensational and very trashy novel. The sensationalism quite transcends any ordinary type. The brutal and disgusting vagaries of a madman figure among the principal events, and are described in extenso. Such doings might very fitly be recounted in a tale of a lunatic ; but that character has not yet been allowed to assume a prominent place in fiction. The grammar is very bad, and the composition no better, as will appear from a few specimens, as follows :—" These sort of clever subjects," "these sort of tea-fights," "he must know better than me," "she was much older than me," " was elusively vanished," " most shapely of all others," " without scorning sought," " somewhy," " agreeability."