12 OCTOBER 1895, Page 11

The Honourable Mrs. Spoor. By Arabella Kenealy. (Digby, Lang, and

Co.)—This can hardly be called a story. One incident it has, and about this critics are specially requested to be silent. We may call it a study, possibly taken from nature, for nature has many revolting things in it. It does not follow that a thing is a subject for literature or art because it exists, though some persons seem to think so. " Devolution," we may inform Miss Kenealy, is not the opposite of "evolution."