15 AUGUST 1891, Page 25

Only Clarchen. By Isabel Don. 2 vols. (Eden, Remington, and

Co.)—This is a fairly good love-story. Chirchen is a girl, half-English, half-German by parentage. Some English relatives take her up in a patronising kind of way. This brings her in the way of the hero, who, after meeting with a disappointment with a woman whom he greatly admires, is glad enough to find the happiness of his life with "only Clarchen." It must be confessed that the story would have been better if it had been compressed into one volume; still, it may be read without ennui. It is per- fectly wholesome, and not without interest.