20 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 21

Twice Married. By James Carton. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)— If

this is meant for a book of the season to please and instruct young readers, we must call it a mistake. It is a commonplace tale of bigamy, or apparent bigamy, well meant doubtless, but not edifying, and certainly not well written. Here is a pretty mixture of meta- phors :—" When the ravings of wounded virtue and lost honour had worn her down, and crashed her beneath the weight of their inefface- able stain." This is almost as good as the historical " nursing a meteor."