Charlotte's Inheritance. A Novel. 3 vols. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)—Mies
Braddon's enlarged experience as a writer of fiction is very discernible in this volume, which is decidedly one of her best, if not the best, she has given to the public. Although it labours under the disadvantage of being the sequel to a previous story, and therefore makes reference to incidents contained in another book,—somewhat to the confusion of the occasional reader,—there is sufficient independent station carried through these three volumes to arouse an interest that is sufficiently lively. Apart from the peculiar idiosyncrasy of the writer, which requires the commission of a murder as a necessary circumstance in the arrangement of her plot, Charlotte's Inheritance is well written, and contains some excellent character-drawing, unspoiled by exaggera- tion for more effect. Even the very repulsive personage, so indispen- sable to the authoress, in this, as in all her other books, is not, it is painful to confess, without his probabilities.
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