4 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 37

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Bishop's Wife. By Dayrell Trelawney. (Bentley and Son.) —The motive of this story seems to us a little far-fetched. That a woman should feel in a false position when her duties seem to clash with the tastes and likings which have become part of herself, is conceivable enough ; but the particular form of the difficulty which this story presents is not happily imagined. Still, there is some good writing in it. Both the Bishop and his wife are sketched with no little power.