24 OCTOBER 1891, Page 24

The Slave of his Will. By Lady Fairlie Cunningham. (Spencer

Blackett.)—This is a story of hypnotism, bearing, by-the-way, a curious resemblance to another with the same motif which has lately come in our way. In both, the man who exercises the mysterious domination over the victim's will is a Russian. We cannot say that we admire this kind of tale generally, or that we find any particular merit in this specimen. We heartily agree with one of the author's characters when he says : " Personally, I admire mens sana in corpore sanum more than any other condition,. be it in man or woman,"—though this very sensible gentleman had become a little rusty in his Latin. We also like to see this com- bination in fiction, and will gladly dispense with anzemic young women, and pale, mysterious foreigners.