30 MARCH 1895, Page 25

'Bachelor' to the Rescue. By Florence Patton-Bethune. (Reming- ton and

Co.)—This is one of the delightful stories with which our novelists seek to amuse and instruct us in these latter days. Somewhat shortened, it might have served for a Christmas tale, as Christmas tales have now come to be. Lena Luffington elopes from her first husband, kills a second by letting him use a rotten lift (her motives are mixed ; she wants to marry some one else, and the man says he shall send her boy to school) ; eager to secure a third, she tries to chloroform a rival, and is killed by a dog. "‘ Bachelor ' to the rescue,"—how pleasing ! how probable !