19 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 24

A Daughter of the Gods. By Pane Stanley. 2 vols.

(Hann and Blaokett.)—This is a painful story, a wife concealing an error, though a comparatively innocent error, of her youth, and hunted by the jealousy of her husband's relatives. Like many such tales, it ceases to please when the interest should become most absorbing; but it displays throughout distinct literary ability.