The Sun by the Shore. By Florence Warden. (Jarrold and
Sons.)—There is no reason why a story should not be written with a plot in which the central motive is kleptomania. But the incidents of The Sun by the Shore make too large a demand upon the faith of a reader. The thief could hardly have escaped in the way she did under the circumstances described at the end of chap. 2. And why, we may ask, if suspicious losses had already taken place in the house, why was the guest chamber still left without any means of protection ? The story is spun out to a quite unconscionable length. It would have served for thirty pages ; three hundred are far too many.
About twenty-five years ago Mr. Baring Gould published The Lives of the Saints in twelve volumes. We have now the first volume of a new edition, revised and enlarged. Lives of
additional saints, especially of those who are connected with the British Isles, whether of English or Celtic race, have been added, and the author also furnishes an introduction, in which he examines the early beginnings of hagiology, and describes the sources which are available for the study of the subject. The work is to be completed in sixteen volumes.
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