Morganatic Marriage. By Carlton Dawe. (Hutchinson and Co. Gs.)—Mr. Carleton
Dawe's story is so preposterous that it entirely misses the necessary touch of credibility which makes this kind of romance interesting. Royal romances are just now . the fashion, but they are usually placed in some conveniently obscure kingdom of South-Eastern Europe, and it is quite impossible to believe in a story of which the heroine is the sister of the reigning King of Spain. This young lady, during a visit to Buckingham Palace, goes quite alone to Kew on a penny. steamer, where she meets the hero, with whom she subsequently goes to tea in his chambers in the Temple, accompanied only by one of the Princesses of the house of England. This is absurd enough; but when it comes to the young lady giving the hero an interview in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, in the course of. which many embraces are exchanged, the reader will be apt to close the book with a feeling of disgusted impatience. To tell the truth, the novel is very vulgarly absurd.
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