16 MAY 1891, Page 24

A Domestic Experiment. By the Author of "Ideals." (W. Blackwood

and Sons.)—This tale is of a common enough type. A woman married to a foolish, good-natured husband, loves a man of a very superior kind, but is saved from any disastrous result by various causes,—his good principle, her own sense of right, and the influence of another woman, from whose antecedents one might not have expected a good result. All this is well enough done, though we must own to finding the story a very distasteful one. But there is a part of the book for which we can imagine only one origin. Surely the scene between Mrs. Stubstyle and the footman can only have come from a farce which the managers have not considered suitable to the stage. Anything more extravagant we have never seen in literature.