One Fair Enemy. By Carlton Dawe. (John Long. 6s.)—This is
a story of the Great Rebellion containing many exciting rescues and adventures. It is always a perilous experiment to introduce Oliver Cromwell into fiction ; but Mr. Carlton Dawe gives us a not wholly inadequate figure in the glimpses which he affords of the great general. The story ends before the death of the King, so the reader feels that many adventures and perils still lie before the hero and heroine, whom he leaves united on the last page. However, he will hope that they emerge from them as prosperously as from those which Mr. Carlton Dawe describes in these chapters. The conversion of the heroine from Royalism to the side of the Parliament is more of the heart than of the head. Indeed, the saying might be applied to her which was once spoken of an artistic lady who took to painting after having been devoted to nothing but music : "It is not the sister art, it is the brother artist." The Lady Beatrice's devotion to the King, though fervent at the beginning of the story, is not very deeply rooted, and she is quite willing to embrace her lover's principles when she takes him for a husband. The story is graceful and readable, though somewhat slight in texture.
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