Cumbe 'lady's Ghost. By Jerrold Orlayt. (Remington.)—This, we learn, is
a first effort. It is to be hoped that, should the author make a second, he will not seek to stimulate the interest of his readers in quite the same way. Our faculty of astonishment is exhausted by the time we come to the ghost. " Cumbe Harly," it may be remarked, by the way, turns out, quite unexpectedly to any one who judges by the ordi- nary rule of English inflexion, to be a place, and not a person. When we say that one young gentleman is murdered by his mistress, and that a former mistress of the same man is found by a lover, who makes his way into her room with the purpose of carrying her off by force, to have poisoned herself and her child, it will be understood that the incidents are startling. The ghost is indeed quite tame, nothing but a former wife of the unprincipled nobleman who marries the heroine, compelling her thereto by threatening to expose her brother's forgeries. The brother is the same well-conducted young man, the chief event of whose life we have mentioned before. The nobleman makes the amende by marrying his second wife again, and then meets Nemesis in her now established form of a railway accident. There is a general clear- ance of the characters, not in the least to any one's regret. Let us hope that when Mr. " Orlayt " tries again, he will not borrow his figures from a chamber of horrors.
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