6 OCTOBER 1894, Page 26

Enid Lyle. By Bessie Hatton. (Chapman and Hall.) — There

are some fine things in this story. Such is the introduction of Philip Palethorpo to his unacknowledged child, Mary Douglas. And there is something effective in the contrast between the scenes of life in the convent-school and the theatre rehearsals. On the other hand there are manifest weaknesses. Harry Archer could never have persisted in his suit to Enid in the very pre- sence of the woman whom he had wronged. Nor, we may observe, could he have been married the next day at the registrar's office. eClesre.tain formalities of notice are required there and everywhere