Amabel Channice. By A. D. Sedgwick. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—This is
a story of maternal love, as opposed to the usual tales of love in the more ordinary sense of the word. The heroine, being married to a man rather older than herself in early youth, runs away with a Bohemian lover, of whom she tires in less than a week. Her husband allows her to live at an old house of his in the country, and does not repudiate the resulting child. No readers of modern fiction will be surprised to hear that, in spite of this being the plot of the book, the virtuous person in it is Lady Channice, the heroine, and not the husband. The rather dreary picture of Amabel Channice's life in the old deserted country house is well drawn, and the figure of Sir Hugh, her husband, very cleverly outlined. A book with this subject cannot be cheerful reading; but the relations between Amabel Channice and her grown-up son Augustine, who does not know himself to be illegitimate, are told in an interesting manner. In spite of this, there is no denying that the novel leaves a painful impression on the reader's mind.
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