Running It Off. By " V ernx " (Nat Gould).
(Routledge and Sons.)—There is a disagreeably strung favour of various kinds of villainy about this book. We hava seduction, abduction, lying and slandering, turf ras:•alities in abundance, and other things which make unsavoury reading. It is all well meant—villainy meets with its proper reward, an 1 virtue comes by its own ; but the process does not, to our mini, make pleasant or profitable reading.—Cynthia Wakeham's Money. By Anna Katharine Green. (G. P. Putnams' Sons.)—This is another story full of
strong sensations, oz. what are intsnded for them. It is written, indeed, on very different lines from that just noticed, for it is not the Seventh Commandment that is in question ; but it did not strike us as a successful effort,—certainly not equal in interest to stories from the same pen that have preceded it.
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