Angelot. By Eleanor C. Price. (G. Newnes. 6s.)—This "Tale of
the First Empire" is a very successful performance. The First Empire is not so remote that there is much difficulty in reviving its life and manners in a convincing way. Then Mimi Price does not attempt the historical novel ; her story is of the' fortunes of private persons, which are just touched by the politics' of the day. Ange de la Mariniere, commonly known as Angelot, is a delightful hero; his rival, General Ratoneau, is a brutal soldier, very like the Colonel whom Edmond About draws so admirably in " L'Homme k l'Oreille Cassie " as making such a sensation with his Napoleonic manners in the Paris of the "sixties.. The cause of quarrel between these two is Helene, an Anjou Juliet, who falls very much in love with her Romeo, not indeed at their first meeting, but at their second; but then Anjou is considerably to the north of Verona. We need not say any- thing more about Angelot than that it is delightful from beginning to end.
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