Temptation. By Graham Irving. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—An eminent authority
tells us that the novel can never fail for want of subjects, as long as the novelist has two men and a maid, or a man and two maids to write about. Still, it is a fact that plots are becoming stranger and stranger. Here is one. Lord Montenoy has a prejudice against marriage, and persuades Idela Power that he is right. In view of the birth of a child she changes her mind, and vainly tries to persuade her lover. She goes through the ceremony, her brother personating Lord Montenoy, who shortly afterwards is killed while out shooting. Adele marries his cousin and heir, and then regrets that the child, who is legitimatised, but is not legitimate, should stand between her husband and his rights. Was there ever anything so bizarre, so absolutely unlike life ?
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