By Woman's Favour. By Henry Erroll. 3 vols. (Richard Bentley
and Son.)—It might be well for Mr. Erroll, when he next writes a novel, to choose a better kind of hero than George L'Estrange. It is tiresome to read of the successes of a fellow whom it is impossible not to despise. Nor is it easy to believe that one so selfish, vain, and false could have had the genius with which he is credited. There are distinctly good things in the novel. The story of Gwen and Prue is certainly pathetic; and the picture of the life to which George is introduced at his first coming to them is well drawn,—if, indeed, it was worth drawing at all. But we could have spared the story of Helen Fellowes. Indeed, we could have spared the whole story, notwithstanding its undoubted cleverness. It is difficult to read it without thinking the worse of one's fellow-creatures.
Previous page
