The Story of Bawn. By Katharine Tynan. (Smith, Elder, and
Co. 6s.)—Miss Tynan will not increase her reputation by this book. The Story of Sawn contains none of the picturesque elements with which the author has so often delighted us. It is a commonplace narrative of a young lady who thinks she is going to be forced into an uncongenial marriage to save her relations from the publication of a disgraceful story about a member of the - family. In the end, the sacrifice is not exacted from Bawn—such is the heroine's name—and she marries a man whom she has only seen once or twice, but with whom she is desperately in love. There is no intrinsic reason why the book should not possess the charm of many of Miss Tynan's Irish stories. But the fact remains that while, for example, Julia was a delightful and living person, Bawn is only a lay figure whose adventures are by no means original.
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