Chelvey Court. Mabel E. Fowler. (Arrowsmith, Bristol ; Simpkin, Marshall,
and Co., London.)—In this little story the loves and misfortunes of succeeding generations are skilfully blended. Miss Mabel Fowler has made use of familiar themes ; we recognise the sliding panel, the secret chamber, the lost will and the ghost, but these well-known ingredients are mixed with a light hand, and the result is pleasant and readable, if not original. There are weak links in the plot ; we do not understand what became of the most important witness to the will, nor how he was influenced, and it seems as unaccountable that the first hero should have acquiesced so quietly in the loss of his property, as that the second hero should have concealed his identity so effectually from the girl to whom he had proposed. However, in romantic fiction we cannot always expect possibili- ties, and the book, which is prettily illustrated, will serve to while away a dull hour on a railway journey.
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