A Gentleman of the South. Edited, without change, from the
MS. Memoirs of Colonel Stanton Elmore by William Garrott Brown. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—As with all novels dealing with the Southern States of America, an atmosphere of pro- found melancholy pervades this story, even though the action takes place before the war. Henry Selden, the hero, is a most attractive figure, and his sadness is easily accounted for, as his life has been spoilt by a vendetta which exists between his family and that of a neighbouring plantation, and in the final act of which he loses his life. The glimpse of the Washington of that day, which occupies a few chapters in the middle of the book, is interesting, though it has not, of course, the romance of the pictures of life at the "Cedars," as the Selden house is called. The book has charm, which is a great quality, and one not in- variably to be found even in novels which interest their readers.
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