Boycotted. By Mabel Morley. (Remington.)—This is a pretty story, with
some lifelike sketches of Irish affairs. Captain St. Helier takes a company of Dragoons and a squad of emergency- men to protect and help a certain Captain Boyd, who is struggling against a "boycott" imposed upon him and his belongings by the local branch of the National League. Here he meets with his fate in the landlord's sister-in-law, and we have a readable little love-story, with the customary complications and difficulties. There is "a tragical under-plot in the relations of the Serjeant and Biddy.—A Pretty Radical, and other Stories. By Mabel E. Wotton. (D. Stott.)—This is a collection of clever stories, mostly of a somewhat serious kind. "A Clever Woman" is, perhaps, as good as any. Next to it we should place " Monsieur le Curs." " My First Patient " reminds us strongly of a once famous book, the "Diary of a Late Physician."
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