Through the Shadow. A Novel. 2 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This is
a story of "fast" life, in which everybody talks a kind of pseudo- military slang, hardly intelligible to outsiders, and goes through surprising adventures, in the intervals of Tattersalrs, " the Row of a morning, the park in the afternoon, and the evening spent dining, dancing, going to the play or the club, varied occasionally in the day-time by Hurlingham or Prince's, and in the evening by a visit to the Argyle, dre." We have also an account, more ecstatic than exact, of "aristocratic Goodwood aid noble Richmond's timbered park,—long may you continue, &c.," but this kind of thing is really better done every year by the descriptive reporters. Of course there is much more than this, though fortunately the print is big, the " fat " plentiful, and we have only two volumes ; but our readers can, we think, judge for themselves from our excerpts, if they will follow us Through the Shadow.
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