16 AUGUST 1879, Page 25

Her World against a Lie. By Florence llarryat. (Samuel Tinaley

and Co.)—The denial of her marriage that constitutes the "ho " by which Delia Moray saves herself from being deprived of her child by the cruel brother-in-law, to whofo a most unjust law enables her drunken and reprobate husband to hand him over by his will, in one which the circumstances at least palliate. The author of this painful story has by no means made so much of the cleverly-invented situation on which it turns as she might have made of it, and there is a good deal of objectionable coarseness in her style ; nevertheless, the plot is striking and ingenious, and the whole novel is superior to any other by the same writer with which we are acquainted.