19 MAY 1877, Page 22

Eismet. By Mrs. Newton Sears. 2 vols. (Remington.)—This story relates

the doings of Va.vasour St. Lawrence, who certainly, but for the fact that he was really married already, is somewhat badly treated by the young lady who had promised to marry him, and he is assisted by the incomprehensible folly of the people with whom he has to do to avenge himself very amply. We have not patience to go through the plot of this very absurd story. Mrs. Sears has, it seems, an idea of keeping close to nature. So, having told us that one Erie MacNorman "stammered a little," we always have his utterances printed thus :— "Did Justine see-e her too ?" "Well, Miss Cecil, I will go and try to discover if any one is about the gro-unds."