26 JANUARY 1895, Page 12

An Artist's Fate. By Cecil Clarke. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Cecil Clarke's

artist fails to interest us ; if his " fate" keeps us in sus- pense—and indeed we do not know for a time whether he is destined for one of the daughters of Mr. Salmonsen, the Dane, or for the peasant-girl whom he rescues from drowning, or for the young lady who acts as his model—it is not a suspense that par- ticularly agitates us. The most definite impression that we carry away from his volume is that Denmark must be a somewhat pleasant place for a summer holiday, barring any concern in such half-accomplished tragedies as that of Christina and Andreas.