7 OCTOBER 1893, Page 25

Emmet Bonlore. By °pit; Read. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is

not so much a story—though there is a slender thread of narrative in it—as a photograph, severely faithful, of life in Arkansas. Pretty rough that life seems to be, if Mr. Opid's literary camera does its work properly. There is a train-robbery, the posse which goes out to pursue the robbers is attacked by the free-stillers under the impression that it is they who are the object of attack ; three men are banged (by process of law, not by Judge Lynch) ; then we have one murder, suicides, and smaller crimes. Altogether, the picture of social and political life is highly unpleasing, the popular election of Judges being almost as bad a feature as any. We see nothing to make us anxious to exchange our ways for ways Transatlantic,