Mr. Wilt's Widow. By Anthony Hope. (A. D. lanes and
Co.) —Mr. "Anthony Hope" describes his book as a frivolous tale, we do not exactly see why. It is as serious as most tales, as it is certainly better told than most. George Heston, a barrister, recognises in Neaera de Witt, a widow, and the betrothed of his cousin Gerald, a woman whom he had defended years before on the charge of theft. What he does, how he does it, how he fares in doing it, and what was the end of it all, we must leave our readers to discover for themselves. They may very well spend an hour or so in doing it, for the story is good both in conception and in execution. The style is just suited to the subject. There is a half-suggestion of cynicism, but it never becomes offensive. If we were to criticise anything, it would be the audacity with which the Marchioness acknowledges her past.
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