24 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 25

A Poor Player. By West Digges. 2 vols. (Remington and

Co.)—This is a very poor novel, but it is poor in such a very feeble and harmless sort of way, that any elaborate exposure of its poverty would be waste of time. Its persons are unnatural, its events are improbable ; and yet both are lacking in the bizarre kind of interest which sometimes belongs to unnaturalness and improbability. As for the literary style—but of this it is kindest to say nothing, seeing that we can say nothing that is kind.