In a New World. By Mrs. Hans Blackwood. (Hurst and
Blackett.)—Very dull and uninteresting is In a New World, with no character that bears even a remote likeness to life, and no incident to disturb the laboured and tedious style. The heroine, one Daisy, resembles a heroine less than we could have believed even the most unimaginative female writer could have designed, and she is made to behave in a manner so utterly without reason or impulse, that the author can hardly expect her to be regarded as other than insane. The outlook for the one-volume novels is dreary in the extreme, if the great host of idle and meaningless scribblers are to rush in and take the field. The only lines that have amused us in In a New World was the description of a wet day in London, and we thought it kind to shut up the book at once.
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