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in sensuousness are bewilderingly combined. The heroine, whose actions and

emotions are described with tiresome elaboration and misplaced sympathy, is a young lady who, to say the and who would certainly be described by severe and plain- spoken matrons as " a forward young hussy." Nor can the term of reproach be considered unjust when applied to a scoundrel Donithorne, who speaks of a woman's '° gratification in ness :—" And why not, daughter ? You gratified your mother's langorous blood which you have inherited by this union with stuff of this kind would ruin a far abler book than Of This Death,