2 FEBRUARY 1895, Page 24

A Tragic Honeymoon. By Alan St. Aubyn. (F. V. White

and Co.)—The obvious moral to deduce from this novel is, that men are most unwise to fall down and worship a girl merely because she has a pretty face, without regard to her mental or moral qualities; and possibly the masculine tendency to commit this folly may be sufficiently prevalent to justify a word of warning in the matter. Still it is hardly fair on the male sex not to credit a single member of it with sense enough to avoid becoming the victim of an utterly selfish, worthless flirt, who exhibits no sign of grace to merit her final exemption from retribution ; and the universal nature of Nancy's conquests strikes us as a trifle

exaggerated. The book is not unreadable, but rather a feeble sort of novel on the whole.