Bitter to Sweet End. 3 vols. (Samuel Tinsloy.)—This is a
novel of a very ordinary kind. The characters are conventional, the incidents well worn by use. Of course, we know that the child who has been reared by the hospitable farmer will find in duo course its proper father ; and feel scarcely loss certain that the unworthy lover to whom she foolishly gives away, or fancies that sho gives away, her heart in the first volume will be replaced by some one more worthy of the treasure, as the story proceeds. Our confidence is not much shaken by the appearance of a very outrageous villain, who, after ruining the happiness of the mother, seeks to establish a sinister influence over the daughter. Outrageous as he is, he does not frighten us, though we feel a languid interest in wondering why, breathing the spirit of romantic revenge, he should talk like the most vulgar of Cockneys. All that we can say in praise of Bitter to Sweet End is that it is harmless.
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