Dare Lorimer's Heritage. By E. E. Green. (Hutchinson and Co.)—This
is a well told story, the story of a headstrong, pas- sionate boy, whose heritage of temper works against him through his life,—sometimes, indeed, nearly ostracising him altogether from the world. The Lorimer family are all of them interesting except the father and mother, and we do not remember to have seen a novel in which lay characters of such importance were neglected till so late in the narrative. The tragic interest of the story is carefully handled, never made too prominent, and towards the close becomes, for our author, distinctly exciting. But Miss E. E. Green has no violent fits of writing ; her studies of character develop themselves steadily, and we get to know them and wonder how they will act, as we do with few writers of her class. Dare Lori:flees Heritage is somewhat different from the stories we generally expect from Miss E. E. Green ; and we recognise that though the work is very good, it is new, perhaps, to her. A little more back-ground is wanted, but otherwise the novel is a good one, if often melancholy, and absorbing to the end.
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