18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 11

The Broadmoor Patient, and the Poor Clerk. By Frederick Wicks.

(Remington.)—The first of these two stories is a study of homi- cidal insanity, horribly vivid and minute in its details. The distorted logic of the madman's reasonings is given with great force. Altogether it is most opproseively real. These are the things by which the present generation elect, it would seem, to be amused. The other story does not impress one BO much. The point is not so obvious. That it is the story of a swindle and the temptation of an honest man we can see; but the details are not clear.