The Devil's Wind. By Patricia Wentworth (Mrs. G. F. Dillon)
(Andrew Melrose. Os.) —This remarkable novel deals with the Indian Mutiny and treats a hackneyed subject so cleverly that the book seems positively original. The opening chapters describing a great London ball in the year 1854 aro extremely entertaining, and the tragedy of Cavnipore has never been more vividly described. Although the novel is rich in incidents the characterization does not suffer, the heroine, Helen Wilmot, and her cousin, the beautiful but egotistical Adela Lauriston, being extraordinarily well drawn. The figure of the hero is, however, conventional, and he is not altogether free from the fault generally attributed to the hero of feminine novelists— that of being merely a typo. The end of the hook after the political situation has calmed down and the reader is expecting an anticlimax is most ably managed, but the present writer would like to know what provision the author intended to make for the legal situation which arises in the last chapter.
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