in the Crucible. By Grace Denio Litchfield. (G. P. Putnam's
Sons.)—Leigh Cameron, making it:gleat sensation in Washing- ton as the belle of the season, has a crowd of: suitors, two of them standing out of the ruck. One of them gains the advantage over the other by moans which we leave our readers to discover for themselves. We will only remark that a great mystery is made out of nothing. There is nothing like a valid reason why the simple truth should not have been told at once. But if we are to suppose that people always act like reasonable beings, where will the writers of fiction find their complications ? Leigh marries the wrong man, and no smaller power has to be called in than an earthquake to set matters right again. The earthquake, by the way, is admirably described. This passage should be the locus classicus on the subject. The story, we are bound to say, drags a little from time to time, but it is a good piece of work.
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