2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 37

Her Celestial Husband. By Daniel Woodroffe. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Sybil Conyers,

having quarrelled with her engaged lover, whom she supposes to be indifferent to her, marries a China- man, Len-Ching by name. That is a situation which admits of the piling up of not a few horrors, and Mr. Woodroffe does not lose the opportunity. A more dismal tale, even in these days when the art of being dismal is carried to perfection, we have never

seen. We only wish that we could describe it as improbable, but there is no conceivable folly in this way that Englishwomen have not ventured upon.