29 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 21

N or M. By the Author of "Honor Bright." (Wells

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—The beginning of this story is quite charming. Molly and Nora, who will take to themselves the initials of the catechism ("neaten or nomina " they stand for, we are told, only no one in those days had more than one Christian name), the absent godfather, Dr. Theophilus Carlyou, Betty, the housekeeper, and the other dramatis persona are very delightful. But when the story is developed it does not please us so much, for one reason, among others, that it is too melancholy for our taste.