19 OCTOBER 1901, Page 22

Angel : a Sketch in Indian Ink. By B. M.

Croker. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—To all readers who are not so weary of the Anglo- Indian novel of gossip, frivolity, and flirtation that they will have no more of it on any terms, we can cordially recommend the clever story called Angel. The heroine, beginning as a termagant of nine years old, grows gradually and by quite probable ways into a fine character, and arrives at happiness after suffering caused by her own and other people's faults. Kindness and integrity are justified in her husband, Colonel Gascoigne. And the evil woman of the tale is satisfactorily humbled and "done for."