The New Werther. By "Loki." (Kegan Paul and Co.)—The peculiar
character of this book makes it probable that the critics, whose attention the author modestly deprecates, will be his chief readers. The slender volume is a genuine record of the struggles of an imaginative and inquiring nature, amid the crowd of present creeds, systems, and philosophies. Of necessity, it has no determinate result, all its interest lying in its narration. We must acknowledge the good-faith, generous sentiment, and noble aspirations of the author, even if we are obliged to tell him that his efforts will appeal to a very small circle. As is common with earnest and ardent people, the author's humour is unintentional ; but this is a point on which we will not comment, for fear he should reproach us as Ethel was re- proached, by asking, " What demon of actuality has grasped us, and made us proselytes to the ordinary, the usual ?''
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