19 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 39

George Murdoch. By Gabriel Setoun. (Sands and Co.)— There is

some power in this story, but a want of restraint and a distinct tendency to exaggerate. George's uncle is too prepos- terously villainous, too outrageously hypocritical, to ix: admissible as a real study of Nature. Manners as they are, or were, in a. Scotch village are described with some vigouz; but have we not. had about enough for a while of Scotch villages and their manners