8 APRIL 1865, Page 21

Jack Scudamore's Daughter. By Folkestone Williams. (Maxwell.)— We have tried

very hard to read this book through, but the effort twice repeated has been a failure. Only one character will remain with us five minutes, a Miss Brabazon, a new specimen of the emancipated female, who at first wanders over the world, comes home with an odd suite, outrages the county with her ways, and gradually subsides into respectability, and for us oblivion. Following her is interesting, but the rest of the book is not.