The Church and the King. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (T. Nelson
and Sons.)—This is a very elaborate story of love, intrigue, monastic life, and religious disturbances in the time of Henry VIII., and may, on the whole, be described as, for a historical fiction, very much above the average. Mrs. Green has taken great pains to picture Henry VIII. at his best, and, more especially in the conversations of certain of her characters, the conflict on forms of faith and modes of Church government which then went on in men's—and women's—minds, is well brought out. These conversations are a little too long, and there is too little of genuine action in the plot, but some of the more stirring incidents, such as the conflict between a mob and certain religious Sisters led by Saint Monica, are told with skill and taste. Guy, the hero of the story, is a really good sketch, and some of the minor characters are well drawn.
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