Dr. Hermione. By the Author of " Lady Bluebeard." (Black-
wood and Sons.)—A clever story this, and eminently readable, but not, we should say, particularly well constructed. If, how- ever, the author's intention was to show that feminine aspirations after professional success are apt to come to grief, Dr. Hermione is a decided success. Clever, enthusiastic, devoted to her work, and possessed of means which set her above the difficulties that encumber most women in her position, Hermione, it is easy to see, will be a failure as a doctor. She falls in love with a young man who can hardly be considered good enough for her. Is it worth while, the reader is disposed to ask, to take such a world of pains to attain an end which is, after all, so willingly abandoned ? But whatever we may think of the construction or the meaning of the story, that it is "readable from cover to cover" is beyond a doubt.
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