4 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

Namesakes. By E. Everett Green. (Hutchinson and Co.)— We have

plenty of characters in Namesakes, two or three very slight love stories, and a rather unpleasant secret, which concerns the right of two cousins to a property, the question turning on which is the " elder grandson" of their grandfather. Of course a mother

keeps back a certificate of birth, and a final tragedy clears the way for one of them. We cannot call Namesakes an interesting romance. There is no prominent love story, and there are two heroes who run neck and neck the whole way ; and, altogether, it lacks decision and force. It is somewhat long, too and a not strikingly attractive story is spun out so as to destroy any real interest the reader may feel in the narrative.