The Robe of Lucifer. By Frederick White. (A. D. Innes
and Co.)—The plot of this book may be described as a sort of travesty on the first chapter of the Book of Job. A certain Arthur Greenstreet, who is a pessimist, falls into argument with the optimistically minded Julien Ray. The end of it is that Green- street is to prove by actual experiment that all men and women are conquerable by temptation. Satan makes one experiment and fails in it; the man who assumes the "robe of Lucifer makes many and succeeds. This is not a bad scheme for intro- (lacing a good deal of savage satire on various things and per- sons, as a Bishop "escorted to the pulpit by a throng of cringing acolytes,"—do acolytes really go in throngs? It will be easily understood that the result is a succession of stories quite dismal enough to please even the most modern taste.
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