Arlegh Clough : a Cheshire Story. By Hanle Dokenfeld. (London
Literary Society.)—This is a pleasant little story told in a simple and unpretending manner. There is no intricacy, nor novelty of plot in it ; but events follow one another naturally, and the different scenes are painted with vividness and feeling. Arlegh Clough, a lonely country house in the depths of Cheshire, is the home of a secluded old miser and his daughter Cicely. Grace Everard comes here as companion to the girl, whom her father wants to force into a marriage with her wealthy cousin, Stephen Warminton. But Cicely has previously married her cousin's nephew without her father's know- ledge. The story reaches its mast interesting part when Cicely's father refuses to forgive her. The night after his interview with her and her husband he is murdered by his mad wife, who has been con- cealed for ten years in a wing of the building. The mad woman also wounds Warminton, who has already forgiven his nephew for con- cealing the marriage. Grace Everard nurses him in his Dinette, be- comes his wife afterwards, and professes to write this book when she is an old woman of seventy.
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