pomil l y's Dollars. By B. P. Neuman. (John Murray. (is.) — In
this volume Mr. Neuman gives us another study of the money- malrer. David Dominy, to call him by the surname which he assumes, is a Jew orphan living in the Jewish quarter of New York, who by a series of happy chances rises to a position where he is able to win for himself opportunities of money-making on the grand scale. The most powerful chapters in the book are those in which he is put to the test by the woman with whom lie is in love, Sadie Wabler. Sadie has become a Christian and a Roman Catholic, and thinks that she must give herself to religion; but her love for David prompts her to feel that if she can redeem hies from pure money-making, it will be a sign from heaven that this is the work to which she is to devote herself. She therefere tells hins that if he will abandon his great scheme for making a eolessal fortune she will be his wife, but that other- wise she will become a nap. The struggle in Dominy's mind, and the gleam of light which comes to him throng h the text in which our Lord calls a little child to Himself, are depicted with wonderful realism, as is his subsequent coevietion that the sacrifice of his ambition is impossible to him, because he never was a child, and never will be. The whole novel is a very striking example of Mr. Neuman's power in the drawing of character. Dominy lives before us, and his suicide—he kills himself because, having attained his great object, life has nothing further to offer him—convinces the reader. The book is a remarkable study, and deserves careful reading.
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