Honours Divided. By Morley Farrow. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)--
The author has three young ladies to provide for, and finds them suit- able husbands, and what is more, contrives that his readers should care a little about the finding of such husbands. Albina's plot to secure the .affections of Mr. Harding is almost too much for one who is supplied Unbar° no experience in crime, and the unscrupulous solicitor, Albert Northbrooke, is too unmitigated, or anyhow, too offensive a rascal. The Rev. Sir John Vine, on the other hand, is a careful and even subtle study of character ; and Sir Marcus is an agreeable rattle, in whom we feel interested, as we are wont to do in the case of such characters,-though he has done little to deserve it. On the whole, we get a very pleasant and readable story, with an ending which has some truly dramatic force about it. We have taken it for granted that the name '" Morley Farrow" belongs to a man. If it be so, why the strange mistake which makes a trustee, represented as a really sharp man -of business, advising a ward to buy some shares in the Consolidated Fund."
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