With Everything Against Her. By Colonel Cuthbert Larking. 3 vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—Jack Manders, heir to a very proud and stubborn old squire, meets at Monte Carlo a pretty young woman who is left desolate by the suicide of the only person in the world who cared for her. This is the young person who has " everything against her." A secret marriage (we may remark that " special licences " are not granted without some weightier cause than Jack Manders could have alleged) does not improve her position. Here we have the story of her troubles and of their ending, and, we may add, of not a few other things. The author discusses in an artless kind of way any topic that may turn up, as, e.g., the superiority of pasture to plough-land by way of agricultural investment, and has a good deal to say about a number of minor and supernumerary characters. In the end, the virtuous triumph, and the wicked meet with retribution from an. express train, the favourite avenging deity of the modem novelist.
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