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"lie Cometh Not," She Said. By Annie Thomas (Mrs. Pander

Cudlip). 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—In general ton 3 at least, though scarcely in talent, this novel is an advance on " Denis Donne," the one of Mrs. Ponder Cudlip's works which at present has the greatest hold on our memory. It is the story of a girl's passionate love for a worthless man, a love which survives with extraordinary tenacity of life the very cruelest unfaithfulness and neglect. We quite believe that the experience described is a possible one, and though the theme is not an agreeable one, we are ready to allow that the author treats it with ability and good taste. The plot is perhaps the weakest part of the book. There are two Philip Fletchers, one bad, the other good. Tho bad one personates the good, and in that false character wins the heart of the second heroine ; the affections of the first wore already irremovably fixed upon him. Strange to say, when the personation is discovered, he does not get his conjje. These ladies, Madge Roden the heiress, and Mrs. Henderson, who watches over her welfare, were surely very tolerant.