24 APRIL 1897, Page 10

Chrystal, the Newest of Women. By " An Exponent." (Digby and

Long.)—We do not see anything of the "newest" about Chrystal. There is, perhaps, something new in the gloss which the writer of this story puts upon her ways of thinking and acting. But in essence she is a very old type of woman indeed,—very old, and certainly not at all reputable.