19 DECEMBER 1891, Page 25

Roger Ingletort, Minor. By Talbot Baines Reed. (Sampson Low and

Co.)—This is a curiously complicated story, not, we are inclined to think, in Mr. Reed's best style. Long-continued per- sonations are so difficult, and consequently so rare, that they scarcely make good subjects for fiction. This tale is told in a lively fashion, and some scenes are admirable, while the characters are drawn with a force which never deserts Mr. Reed's pen; but the effect of the whole is not satisfactory.