The Angle House. A novel in 3 vols. (T. Cantley
Newby.)—The author of this work must be a disciple of Zadkiel. The Angle House is built in the form of "the Taautic Cross," which is "the perfect symbol of the Infinite Intelligence invented by Hermes Trismegistus." There is also a deal of mystical nonsense (it may fairly be so called, for it is never made intelligible even as magic) which has no bearing whatever upon a story, that is of the simplest kind, and in form an autobiography. Harry Neville, the son of a Dissenting minister, and brother-in-law of two clergymen of the Establishment, declines to go to • Cambridge and enter the Church from conscientious scruples. He goes to a Dissenting college at Hackney, and leaves it for similar reasons. He takes to literature and attains to fair success, one of the incidents of his career being that he sends an essay to The Times newspaper, asking a guinea for it ; it is accepted, and he is then employed to write leading articles at the same rate. Finally he goes back to his mother at the Angle House, and marries the niece of a shopkeeper, who turns out to be the only child of a neighbouring baronet. About the minor incidents there is nothing remarkable except the mysticism, nor about the style,' except the occasional occurrence of such phrases as " he never behaved strictly courteous to her." (p. 49.)
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