18 JANUARY 1890, Page 23

The Heir of Treh.erne. By the Rev. A. D. Crake.

(Mowbray.)— Mr. Crake is concerned to show that there were martyrs on the Papal as on the Protestant side in the troubles that ended with the Reformation of the Church of England. Of course this con- tention is true, but it does not alter the fact that the writer of fiction who sets a purpose of this kind before him imposes upon himself a serious disadvantage. Mr. Crake is a practised writer of stories who has done good work, but he would do well to choose other subjects.