29 APRIL 1893, Page 11

Geoffery Hamilton. By Edward H. Cooper. 2 vols. (Chatto and

Windus.)—There is plenty of brisk dialogue in this story, and, here and there, bits of good description. The scene, for instance, in the Examination Schools at Oxford is noticeably good. But as a tale, Geoffery Hamilton is naught. We read it without difficulty, but do not seem to progress. There is presumably some connecting idea, and it is possible that the author had in his mind a definite plot, but this does not make itself obvious. We have seen many duller books than this—indeed, it cannot be called dull at all—but few more confused.