27 JANUARY 1894, Page 12

Frangipanni. By Murray Gilchrist. (Frank Murray.)—" The story of her

infatuation told," is the author's explanation on the title-page. It is, as may be guessed, a novelette in the new fashion. A sensual scoundrel, a woman who does not know what morals mean, and an unhappy wife, as foolish as she is unhappy, are the characters. There is "Nemesis " indeed ; the scoundrel kills himself in a fit of delirium tremens. This does not prevent the book from being as unwholesome an affair as could be well produced.