The Faith of Hilary Lova. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (R.T.S. 3s.
(ld.)—Mrs. Everett-Green always studies the period in which she elects to place the scene of her story. We have no fault to find with the accessories of her picture, which is a really good bit of work,—it is the time of struggle between Elizabeth and the Papal power, at its culmination in the Armada, that she deals with. But the details are a little surprising. The talk of the priest and the Jesuit in the first chapter does not read naturally. Dialogue, indeed, is not the author's strong point. The language of the time was formal, doubtless ; but there is something unreal about what we read here. Perhaps one might say that Queen Elizabeth blessing a love-match is not what one would expect. But the tale, as a whole, is full of spirit and movement.
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