17 OCTOBER 1896, Page 25

Gerard Thurlow. By T. M. Browne. (S. W. Partridge and

Co,) —This "Story of California" is fairly readable and thoroughly wholesome. Life in California is always at high pressure—so far, at least, as it finds its way into fiction—but there is nothing here particularly extravagant or sensational. To judge from the• denouement, England is the place to which really good Cali- fornians go.