The Iron Game. By Frances Marsh. (A.. C. Fifield. es.) — In
spite of the fact that this book is written with considerable stiff- ness, and that the characters are so magnificently aristocratic that the reader sometimes longs for the appearance of an honest middle-class character, the subject of the novel, the Franco- Prussian War, is in itself sufficient to make it interesting. The adventures of the heroine when she journeys over France as a kind of superior surgical nurse fully bring home the horrors and difficulties of modern warfare. In fact, the whole of the historical part of the book is good reading. The character- drawing, however, is poor, and the author has not succeeded in lending vitality to any of her figures. The novel is divided into three books, of which the middle one, which is concerned with the actual war, is by far the best.
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