Old Times Revived. By Frank Trollope. (Newby.)—" Old times" are
very hard to " revive ;" but it is tolerably easy to make lay-figures and put an ancient-looking armour and satin dresses on them, in fact, to produce something as like life as a moderately good wax-work is. That is about the length to which Mr. F. Trollope can go. Sir Thomss Fitzgerald is a hard-striking gentleman of the familiar type, whose adventures we can follow with tolerable interest. It is a mistake, we think, to begin by killing the hero. Mr. Trollop introduces him to us expiring from the wound of a wild boar's tusk, and then tells his story. We prefer the old method of leaving the hero with his beautiful wife and fine castle, living happily ever afterwards, or at least till, as the Arabian story- teller has it, "the terminator of delights and separator of companions" comes upon him.
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