1 SEPTEMBER 1894, Page 25

Sir Joseph's Heir. By Claude Bray. (Warne and Co.)—The plot

of the story is nothing less than bizarre. A young lady 'consents to marry a chance acquaintance, who represents that he will lose a fortune unless he can find a wife within three days. After all, it turns out that the fortune is in the clouds, for the testator is not dead. How these complications are ended the reader may, if he will, discover for himself. The book has, any- low, the merit of being small.