7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 12

Jaques Haman. By Mary E. Ropes. (S. W. Partridge.) — Jaques Ramon

undertakes to deliver to the owner of a Brittany chdteau a certain document which it is important that he should have. (The time, we should say, is in the early part of this century, during the Napoleonic War.) He falls into the hands of a man whose interests are greatly compromised by the said will, is im- prisoned on the charge of being a spy, and, with the co-operation of a fellow-captive, contrives to escape. The escape is the chief incident in the story, and is described in such a way as to make it easily intelligible.