Lady Bonney's Experiment. By Tighe Hopkins. (Cassell and Co.)—The real
subject-matter of this story, one of the publishers' "Pocket Library," is of but small dimensions. Lady Bonney is an emancipated lady who does some odd things, but her experi- ment, unless it is the attempt to make a fool generally of the hero, is to revive in a nineteenth-century country house the medireval Court of Love. A number of enthusiasts, willing, it would seem, to subscribe to the laws and principles of the Court (for instance, that there can be no love between married people), gather round her. And then, when all goes well, her husband appears on the scene, and gives the company a realistic account of what the Court of Love really was and really did. The company is more modest than it had thought, and disappears as the harassing revelations go on.—A Matter of Angles. By Everard North. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Here the matter is still slighter than in the tale mentioned above. We cannot see any- thing more than that the hero falls in love with a girl, proposes to her, and is accepted, but, finding himself confronted with a hostile father, gives way, and resigns his claim. Things turn out in a melancholy way, or perhaps we should rather say do not turn out at all. The lady prefers some one else, and a judicious friend of the hero is very sorry for him. The dialogue is suffi- ciently smart, but the people have little or nothing to talk about.
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