3 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 12

Woman, the Mystery. By Henry Herman. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—It

is not difficult to compress a great amount of lively incident into the space of a single volume if you make your tale "a story of three revolutions." Henne, Mr. Herman's heroine, undergoes her "baptism of fire" in "the fatal days of '48." She takes an active part in the Civil War between the Northern and

Southern States, and she meets her doom in the War of the Commune in 1871. The tale would have been more effective, we venture to think, if the writer had been content with a more limited subject. But though it wants unity, it is certainly readable.