Torwood's Trust. By Evelyn Everett-Green. 3 vols. (Bentley and Son.)—Here
is a new variation, and not, we think, a very happy one, on the "Claimant Plot." Philip Debenham and Torrington Torwood travel over the world for ten years, Torwood furnishing both money and brains. At the end of this time Debenham succeeds to a large property. Unhappily, he is unconscious with sunstroke when the friends reach the place where the letters with the intelli- gence await them. Thereupon Torwood conceives the happy idea of personating him, managing and settling his affairs for him, and handing them over to him when so arranged. And this he proceeds to carry out with the best and most laudable intentions, with the most perfect success, and with the happiest results. He even goes so far as to engage his friend vicariously to an eligible young lady. The villain of the story is unmasked. A lost will is found in a secret depository behind an edition of Aristotle (the testator had been heard to murmur " Aristotle " in his last moments). Everything, in short, is so satisfactory, that we could wish the novelist could arrange the affairs of this disordered world after her own fashion.
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