30 APRIL 1892, Page 39

Maisie Derrick. By K. S. Macquoid. (A. D. Innes and

Co.)— The heroine of Maisie Derrick being on the point of engagement to the young man of her heart, hard fate brings suddenly into her life a lovely young witch, whose powers of fascination no male breast can resist, and the book sets forth the consequent derangement and rearrangement of her domestic and love affairs. It is a weak story, to the end of which we doubt whether any one except a conscientious reviewer will persevere ; if, however, he does, the reflection most likely to suggest itself is that the pub- lisher's reader by whom it was accepted must have been un- usually easy to please.