The Year of Miracle. By Fergus Hume. (Routledge and Sons.)
—Dr. Rebelspear is a clever young physician, but he has no prac- tice. Having no practice, he is hardly an eligible suitor for the hand of a young lady, daughter of a wealthy but, as usual in fiction, wicked baronet. One has every wish to see the young man prosperous and happy, but a plague that depopulates London is almost too large a price to pay for it. However, this is what happens. It must be allowed, however, that incidental advan- tages follow to other people. "The plague had cleansed as with fire the slums of Whitechapel and the low parts of London of their criminal population, and seeing that only the strong and healthy were left, these were made to work. Idleness was not permitted to either man or woman; marriage between those weakly, either merally or physically, was forbidden," &..c. Finally, "disease, crime, and poverty" are to be abolished in the near future from the midst of the English race. For all that a plague would not be too much to pay.
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