• Heart Salvage by Sea and Land. By Mrs. Cooper
Katharine Saunders. 3 vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—Of the stories in these volumes (three longer and three shorter ones) "The Silver Line" is, we think, the beat, because it is the simplest and most intelligible. It is a love-story, with the nsual complications and coincidences, but it is told in a way that commends it to the reader. In the other two larger efforts, " By the Stone Ezel " and " The Harpers of Mio-y.don," there is something which reminds one, not pleasantly, of what we must call the affectation of the title. In the former, particularly, the conduct of Bentinok, whose coldness on the first renewal of their acquaintance almost breaks his friend's heart, is quite incom- prehensible, in spite of the explanation which he attempts to give of it afterwards.
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