1 AUGUST 1891, Page 25

Amaryllis. By rEcopylos. (T. Fisher lJnwin.)—This little volume, belonging to

the "Pseudonym Library," is a charming love-story, very soon read through, but leaving a distinct and pleasing impression, not readily to be effaced. The scene is laid in Greece, and everything in it—character, manners, scenery—is thoroughly Greek. One might be reading a modern Theocritus, —so sweet, so fresh, so idyllic is the tale. A critic must grumble at something. This time it is the shape of the book that dis- pleases. We never saw a volume that required so much use of the taper-knife before its contents could be got at. The amount of time lost by critics in cutting books mounts up to a really stupendous total.