24 JANUARY 1880, Page 24

Smuts and Diamond, with other Stories. By Selina Gaye. (Rem-

ington.)—These are fairly written stories, which might pass well enough as "padding" for a magazine, but are scarcely worth the dignity of a volume. The "Red Light," which, besides having a certain pathos, is novel in its colouring, and " Who Painted the Pig," seem to us the best.