Alix Fait:ford. By John Dangerfield. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and
Co.) —This novel gives the filling-up of an outline which was pablished some little time ago in the New Quarterly Magazine. It seems to have called forth some criticism from the "Women's Rights" party. The heroine was too meek under provocation, too much of a 'patient Grizzel," a charac- ter -which is not at all to the mind of thinking of this class. The author replies to this criticism quite conolusively,__we only wonder that he thought it worth while to notice it. Alix Fairford does what a true woman should,—bears and conceals the consequences of the fatal mis- take which she has made, in taking a very spurious metal indeed for good gold. In our judgment, the character is a very good ono, and that of Mrs. Jocelyn, specimen of a class which atands at quite the other side of female nature, almost equally so. It is not possible for a story dwelling on such a theme to be exactly agreeable, and we might object, here and there, ito the opinions which the author expounds to us, but it is a clever tale, well told.
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