Dr. Harold's Note-Book. By Mrs. Gascoigne. (Longmans.)—This is a volume
somewhat slight in texture, but pleasantly written, generally developing a fair amount of interest in the plot and of a most unexceptionable morality. Some of them have already appeared in Household Words. "A London Fog" may serve as a specimen of all. A gentleman is asked by a friend to meet some relatives of his at a railway-station. He goes, gets hold, of course, of the wrong people, encounters sundry misadventures disagreeable or ludicrous, ultimately finds his way out of all the entanglements which they occasion, and secures by way of compensation the best of wives, in a young lady whom he would not otherwise have known. Readers of average activity must have met with this sort of thing thousands of times, but, to judge from the magazines, they do not seem to tire of it, and as long as they are not tired who is to complain 7—not critics, though they have to take in one great bolus what is for most people spread into a reasonable number of moderate doses.
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