16 JULY 1887, Page 18

A New Othello. By John Hyndford. (Elliot Stook.)—This is a

dreary story of jealousy and revenge, not without a certain dramatic power, but certainly not attractive. There are little things which take off from its verisimilitude,—a great matter in a story of this kind. The ending seems to us improbable, almost physically impos• Bible. How could the couple who devote themselves to death,—the husband because he has wronged his wife by his cruel and murderous jealousy, the wife because she will not leave her husband,—embark in a boat from an open rocky shore? "The boat was cut loose." From what ? Was it riding at anchor with "tremendous waves" breaking on the rocks ? And are country-houses in Scotland ever called " manors " ?