6 DECEMBER 1884, Page 46

A Mad Game. By Mrs. Houston. 3 vols. (F. V.

White and Co.) —The "mad game" is the love made by Arthur Randolph to Eva Cameron. Arthur is Eva's guardian ; but he labours under the difficulty of being at least apparently married. It is not an agreeable story, nor remarkably edifying, nor particularly well written. Mrs. Houston has an irritating way of sprinkling her pages with French. Why write "apres " instead of "afterwards," or "cela depend" for " that depends "