2 AUGUST 1884, Page 26

Three Sisters ; or, Sketches of a Highly Original Family.

By "Anon." 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—There is a certain photo- graphic lifelikeness about these sketches (they give us, indeed, the idea of being actually drawn from real persons), but they are sadly wanting in artistic quality. The writer must learn that some faculty of composition is wanted before any real literary work can be done. It will not be enough to reproduce, however faithfully, the conversations and incidents of life. Yet the power to reproduce is something, and we do not think it impossible that the author of the Three Sisters may yet produce something that will have the readableness which, to be candid, we have not found in these two volumes.