Mrs. Digby Kaufman of Bayswater. By Mrs. Mark Herbert, (Digby
and Long.)—At the beginning of this story we are led to suppose that the misdoing of Mrs. Digby Kaufman consists in her utilising in literary matters private family histories. But this is, as a matter of fact, forgotten. Her real offence has been the involving of a young friend in what looks very like bigamy. This young friend is a wealthy girl from India, and she induces her to marry her brother, who is a regular scamp. The brother is arrested on his wedding-day, for swindling, goes abroad after his sentence has been worked out, and is supposed to be drowned. His widow marries again, and then he turns up and blackmails her and his sister. What trouble ensues from this, and how the victim comes out of it may be not unpleasantly learnt from Mrs. Mark Herbert's book. It is not by any means faultless, either in construction or style ; never- theless, we found ourselves reading it from beginning to end
without any failure of interest. It has a vigour and a natural- ness which atone for its faults.
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