11 JULY 1874, Page 24

Roseteague ; or, the Heir of Treville Crewse. By Mrs.

Bray. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a story of the old-fashioned sort, with all the machinery to which we are so well used. There is a grasping old man who tries to secure his evil gains by making up a marriage between his daughter and the rightful heir; there are smugglers, conspirators, mysterious strangers, trap-doors, homicides, revelations of unknown relationships, and all the rest of it. The actors in the story are of the most conventional sort, good or bad, as the exigencies of the plot demand, but without any distinctive character at all. It will be supposed that the effect of the whole is not very attractive, yet there is incident enough in the story to make it tolerable to some readers.