5 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 13

Dunwell Parva. By Reginald Lucas. (F. Warne and Co.)— This

is a distinctly good story, with the elements of religion, politics, and love happily combined. Lord Ryde is an aristocrat with a democratic turn, and involves himself in the confusions which that situation is apt to produce. Then he loves one girl in vain, and is himself vainly loved,—a very pathetic episode is this latter. The real hero of the tale, Herbert Ogilvie, is ex- ..ellently drawn, and there is another good subsidiary figure is the young rector, Francis Gray, who finds that even convention- alities have some use, and that a parson does not get nearer to the hearts of his people by wearing a light suit and driving a tandem.