Wyetnarke's Mother. By Edward H. Cooper. (Grant Richards. 5s.)—"Wyemarke's Mother"
is a really great lady, whoso picture does credit to Mr. Cooper's pencil. There is an easy grace and quite unconscious mien of conquest about her which aro irresis- tible, yet she does not interest us as much as does Wyemarke herself, a child such as Henry Kingsley might have been proud to draw. To many of our readers Wyemarke will be an old friend. Let the others lose no time in making her acquaintance. Her nalvet6 and her cleverness are nothing less than delightful. We must, however, respectfully decline to accept as coming among even her possibilities the part she takes in the story of the Orleanist intrigues in Paris. The satire on the inane conspiracies, as they manage them in Royalist France, is excellent, but it is hardly in place. There is another child in the story, who presents a very difficult problem in education with her peculiar form of passive resistance. We may at least be thankful, as we read, that she does not come within our range of action.
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