27 APRIL 1895, Page 11

A Romance of Dijon. By M. Betham-Edwards. (A. and C.

Black.)—This is a story of the French Revolution. But the writer regards that event from a point of view not often taken by the novelist. The Terror is, so to speak, kept out of sight. We see in its stead the hope, the enthusiasm, with which the uprising of the people against inveterate abuses and oppressions was regarded by many honest and right-meaning men and women. Miss Betham-Edwards is at home in the delineation of French life. It would not be easy to find more vivid figures or sympa- thetic drawing of character than we see in the "Belle Dijonnaise," Pernelle Nesmond, the aristocrat Louis de Velours, and the old smuggler Fortune.