A Lady's Honour. By Bass Blake. (T. Fisher Unwin. 8s.)—
This is another volume of the " First Novel Library." Where place will be found for all these recruits of the army of novelists, already, one might think, over-large, is not easy to imagine. They certainly seem to take very kindly to their work. This is a very brisk, and even exciting, story. Perhaps in the future Mr. Bass Blake will tone down his colours a little. The villain of the drama is almost too bad, and such adventures as the great Duke of Marlborough brought in a sack into a thieves' kitchen, and the hero's adventure in the pipe, are almost too startling. Yet the story is decidedly a success. Katherine, though we do not always understand what she is about, is a very human creature ; the figure of Sir Peter shows some of the art of shading, which from the drawing of Cathcart one might suppose the author to be without.
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