9 JUNE 1894, Page 27

A Latter - Day Romance. By Mrs. Murray Hickson. (Bliss, Sands, and

Foster.)—There is no doubt that this story is "latter-day." The " latter-day " characteristics—not altogether pleasing, at least to tastes which have been accustomed to other things—are here in force. But the " romance " ? We cannot see much of it. Jack Dalston. marries Lilian Vane. All seems to promise happiness; but Lilian is not one who can take a husband "for better, for worse." Poor Jack, by no fault of his own, turns out very much "for worse," and Lilian behaves to him after her kind. The story is not without literary merit; but we must own that we find no charm in "romance" of this kind.