Weavers and Weft, and other Tales. By the Author of
"Lady Audley's Secret." 3 vols. (Maxwell.)—Miss Wadden mixes up, as is her wont, very potent ingredients,—love, jealousy, revenge, murder, and madness. But she does it with skill, and the result is not without its charm. Anyhow, she does what she has never indeed failed to do,—she makes us read what she has written, and read it with an interest which does not flag. We might object that Wyatt, the cool, scheming villain, whom everybody trusts and who betrays everybody, would hardly have hampered himself by that entanglement with the French maid which brings all his plans to ruin ; but villain; however cool and scheming„ have, we suppose, their weak moments. Some of the shorter stories are very good. We may specially mention "Sebastian " and "Sir Luke's. Return," if we are content to accept an improbability of more than usual strangeness.
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