28 JULY 1883, Page 26

Love's Empire. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—We suppose that this book

is intended for a social and political satire, and we see that the scene is laid in India. Beyond this supposition and this state- ment we should not like to venture, except, indeed, to say that, in a tolerably extended experience of books, we have seldom found anything BO unreadable.