6 MAY 1893, Page 27

The One Good Guest. By L. B. Walford. (Longmans.)—This is

not Mrs. Walford's best work, but it has a good deal of humour in it, and could not have been written by any author who had not a groat gift for sprightly and skilful portraitnre. It has remained too long without notice. But Mrs. Walford is so able a writer that we are disposed to procrastinate reviewing any book of her's when we find her at anything but her highest mark. From any unknown author we should have thought it a book of very groat promise.