3 AUGUST 1895, Page 25

Studies in Miniature. By "A Titular Vicar." (Digby and Long.)

—" Grip the Miser" seems to be a reincarnation of our old friend .Scrooge in "The Christmas Carol;" "Poor Marjorie" is a melan- choly story with no particular meaning; "The Mayor's Daughter" is an encouragement to provincial young ladies to look high; "The Bishop and the Chaplain" is perhaps the weakest part of a very weak book.