Dr. Quantrill's Experiment. By T. Inglis. (I. and C. Black.)
—The first part of Dr. QuantriWs Experiment, which relates George Worthington's falling in love with his housemaid, the realisation of her visit to the fortune-teller, is the best, and the Last part the worst. Mrs. Worthington, who is married before she really knows what love is, is a very natural and human creature, and it seems a pity tiler, at the last, things should not right themselves. But George Worthington, since the discovery that his wife, though nominally a farmer's daughter, has really dissolute blue blood in her veins, views her flirtation in the worst rssible light, and so is hopeless. Too late he relents and for- gives, and the two go down to the bottom of the sea together The finale is too melodramatic, and spoils an otherwise clever study, which certainly shows much insight and knowledge of character.
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