The Dream of Peace. By Francis Gribble. . (Chapman and Hall.
6s.) —Mr. Gribble in his new story gives a very interesting account of the realities of war, as seen in rural France during the Franco-German campaign. His heroine, Claire Saint Evremond, is left alone in a country house which is occupied by the Uhlans, and the situation is further made intricate by the fact that the German officer at the head of the force quartered in her house is a youth with whom she had had sentimental dealings before the troubles of the war began. All through the book are the
marchings and counter-marchings of the rival armies, and no one reading it can fail to hope that their native country will be spared the horrors of invasion. The characters are drawn in greater detail than is usually the case in novels of action, and the book is successful as a story as well as interesting historically.
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