2 MARCH 1878, Page 22

Her Father's Child. By Mrs. W. R. Snow. (Remington.) — Doubt- less

there are men who desert the best of wives for the sake of worth- less women,—doubtless, too, there are women as selfish and insolent as Lady Archdale ; but unless a writer has a great lesson to enforce, and great power wherewith to enforce it, such persons are best left un- described. Mrs. Snow, we doubt not, means well ; but such novels as this are naught, whether we regard them from the point of morals or from the point of art.