2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 14

more skilfully cut than some. The young wife of General

Rivington meets, after a long interval, the hero of her youth ; loves him, fights with success against the love, and when it re- turns upon her in force sees that the man has consoled himself, and not worthily, elsewhere. Whether this sort of thing is worth writing is a matter between author and publisher ; that it is not worth reading a critic may affirm without hesitation.