Nameless : a Novel. By F. A. Newbonld. (Remington and
Co.)— In the first few pages of this tale we are introduced to people of such extraordinary distinction that we can hardly fail to be interested in their fortunes. The heroine, Eulalie, had "a face as perfect in form
and feature as it was thrilling in beauty of expression." "In her elegant attire of to-day, friends started in astonishment, too surprised even to speak, and strangers stood before her in speechless admiration.' No destiny but the highest could be in store for a dressmaker's ap- prentice of this sort. Ultimately she becomes the wife of the Duke of Jersey, whose "lofty title" was "supported by a rent-roll of some hun- dred thousand per annum." One Mrs. Courtenay has the credit of being Eulalie's mother, until she explains that she is only her aunt, having robbed her sister of this child at its birth, adding, "It was born in a comatose state about which the doctor had his doubt" These two ladies are, like every one else, overladen with superlatives. Mrs. Courtenay's "wealth was reputed something enormous," she was" the most distinguee, handsomest, and best-dressed woman in the most elegant and tastefully furnished house in all the county." Lady Mont- pelier also was"enormously rich, with all at her own command." If these extracts do not attract readers to Nameless, no words of ours will do so.
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