2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 13

The Worst Woman in the World. By F. C. Philips.

(Downey and Co.)—These twenty-nine short stories are, on the whole, favourable specimens of their class. We do not understand the present fondness for this kind of thing. Still, it exists ; and the supply here tendered to the want is sufficiently good. Some of the stories are needlessly painful. " A Love-Story " is one. There is, to speak plainly, a certain brutality in the cynicism. "A Blind Woman" is nearly as bad. To the rest we have no serious objection to make.