The Two D.annores. By Blake Lamond. (Remington and Co.) —If
stories of this type are to be known as " sporting love-stories of the day," we have indeed fallen on bad times. " Blake Lamond" takes the opportunity of airing her own views on all kinds of subjects, and love and sport are almost conspicuous by their absence. There is no plot, and the narrative, owing to the intrusion of superfluous dialogue and argument, becomes insuffer- ably tedious. It is nothing less than disgusting to head a chapter
Obstetric," and we wonder it has been allowed to pass. That one point in it which " Blake Lamond " urges is right, makes no difference—a sporting love-story is not the medium for medical reforms. For the rest, " Blake Lamond" seems to think no action is necessary for a story which may consist of a collection of dis- courses, arguments, uninteresting characters, and incidents strung together anyhow,—but such productions are quite un- readable.
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