The Girl He Married. By James Grant. 3 vols. (Tinsley.)—We
can always look to Mr. Grant with some confidence for a readable novel,. with characters, if not profoundly studied, yet distinctly marked, and with,—for that is an unfailing quality,—abundance of incident. As for this particular tale, we may say that we do not get thoroughly "into the swing," so to speak, till we reach the third volume, which embarks ns on the Spanish Main. There Mr. Grant is thoroughly at home ; the- novel becomes something more of a romance ; there are adventures by land and sea, which we follow with breathless interest ; there are wealthy merchants, pirates, Yankee skippers, the honest British seaman, the beautiful young donna, in fact, all the usual corps dramatigue, whose movements Mr. Grant knows so well how to direct. And, on the whole, the result is a success.
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