Fallen Fortunes. By E. Everett-Green. (T. Nelson and Sons. 35.
WO—Miss Everett-Green has laid the scene of this story in the reign of Queen Anne; but though it opens on the field of Ramillies, the hero does not choose the profession of arms as the means by which to retrieve his fortunes. The present vrriter can- not but think that the book might possibly have been more enter- taining had he done so. It is, however, quite readable, and though dealing with a time when the feeling between Whig and Tory was strong and bitter, there is no surfeit of party spirit.—The same can hardly be said of For Crown and Covenant, by Cyril Grey (R.T.S., 3s. 6d.) Mr. Grey commences his story in the autumn of 1680, and in converting his hero to the Covenanters spares his readers none of the barbarisms which the Scottish peasantry were subjected to at that time ; surely these are more suited to a history than a gift-book ! The character of Randal Osborne is forcibly drawn, and the book on the whole well written; but would the term "Whig," which was first applied to the country party in 1679, have been as commonly used as Mr. Grey makes it but a year later in Scotland ?
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