Lady Louise. By Kathleen Isabella Clarges. 3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)
—Miss Clarges produces incidents well-worn already in the service of fiction, and does not contrive to give them any novelty by her method of treatment. A girl is deceived by a false marriage, if one can call the wilful acting in spite of warning being deceived ; and a young gentle- men enlists in the Line, saves the life of the heroine, loves her, sees her married to another, behaves in the most heroic way in the Crimean trenches, receives the last words of the husband, and obtains his due reward both in honour and love. Beyond these incidents there is very little to fill up these three volumes, which have indeed about the smallest allowances of pages that we ever saw in a novel of the regula- tion size. But that, at least, is a fault which can be easily pardoned.
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