Evil May-Day. By E. Everett-Green. (Nelson and Sons.)— This "Story
of 1517" is constructed on familiar lines. Dick Blackstone loves Gabrielle, the daughter of his master, Gabriel Mottas. But Gabrielle has another suitor, one Master Lincoln, and Master Lincoln is in league with a certain evilly disposed Canon. Gabriel is a foreigner, and there is no little ill-will towards foreigners among the London 'prentices. (It took the form of riots in earlier days ; now people ask questions in Parlia- ment.) Dick comes somehow, by the machinations of his enemies, to be mixed up with the disturbances. However, the King, whom it is pleasant to see for once in the character of a benevolent prince, interferes, and Dick regains his liberty and is made happy With the hand of the fair Gabrielle. It is a pleasant story, though with nothing striking or novel about it.
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