The Lady Drusilia. By Thomas Purnell. (Ward and Downey.) —We
were prepared for something disagreeable by the second title of "A Psychological Romance," and had our anticipation completely fulfilled. The story, in the main, is the narrative told by a very foolish man of his relations with a profligate woman. Into this is wrought the account of a curious monomania, not worth the trouble of describing, which the foolish man describes as existing in himself. The wicked woman dies, or is reported as dead, is found to be alive, then is murdered without any mistake, possibly by the foolish man. That is the romance, as lucidly as we can pet it, only we ought to say that everything is mysteriously connected with a charm which the narrator has seen practised in a Welsh cottage. We hope that Mr. Purnell will give us next time something more rational and wholesome.
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