Cietnentina. By A. E. W. Mason. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—
Clementine is a romance of most delicate ingenuity and humour, which reminds us sometimes of Mr. Stanley Weyman, and—dare we say it ?—a little of Mr. Weyman's great master. Wogan, the Irishman, and his three faithful companions are excellent com- pany, and the quest upon which Wogan is sent—or rather sends himself—is of the very quintessence of romance. He has to rescue from captivity the Princess Clementine of Poland, and bring her to Bologna to be married to the Chevalier de St. George. Wogan is the most loyal as well as the most daring of servants; and he refuses with beautiful simplicity the tempta- tion to which Lancelot succumbed. The novel is pretty an I amusing, as well as ingenious. But it will not please those who still cherish illusions about the Stuarts.
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