A Brother or Lover! By Mist. (Newby.)—A lady who in
but little more than one hundred and fifty pages so arranges matters that "three brides and bridegrooms return walking to Wellmont across a lovely field," cannot ho accused of wasting time. It is possible that readers who cannot have too much of this imaginary matrimony will be better inclined to overlook any little defects there may be in " Mist's " plot, style, Sm. The story is fragmentary and dis- jointed in an extraordinary degree, and we fail to recognise as any known phenomenon some of the incidents which it describes. A family, for instance, of four children, named "Roses Gracilis," " Florabunda," "Diospherus Carker," and "Snow-flake Lily" (the parents might have consulted a dictionary with advantage), is scarcely probable, and why should a peer bearing the title of Viscount have a "widowed Countess" for his mother ?
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