An Excellent Mastery. By F. Davenport 381188. (Swan Sonnen- sehein
and Co.)—The "excellent mystery" is, as may be supposed, marriage ; and a very pretty story of marriage the author Mlle us.
He, or she, has laid to heart the maxim that the interest of life begins rather than ends with the ceremony in which these words occur, and has also avoided the danger of the ambiguous situations with which novels about married life often abound. Her couple quarrel, and a very serious quarrel it is, threatening at one time to have a very disastrous ending. The reader is kept in suspense, and ache can hardly fail to have contracted a liking for the young people, has that anxiety for their happiness which is a sign of a well.con- structed tale. Our only criticism is that the villain—a female villain, by the way—is somewhat beyond the bounds of probability. Was ever a woman so spiteful ?
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