A Little Journey in the World. By Charles Dudley Warner.
(Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Warner's novel is one of the " no- plot-or-incident " type. Margaret Debree, a highly cultured New England woman, rejects an excellent young Englishman, who is next heir to a peerage, and marries an unscrupulous New York financier. Her new life drags her down, and it is well, perhaps, for her that she dies in her prime. Her husband is punished by a second marriage with a woman still more unprincipled than himself. This is, we may say, a sufficient analysis of Mr. Warner's story. That there is abundance of clever writing in it need hardly be said. The conversations are brilliant, and commonly interesting, especially when they touch on the inexhaustible topic of national characteristics. But we must frankly own that this is very far from being our idea of a novel.
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