30 JANUARY 1892, Page 13

Uneven Ground. By Florence Severne. 3 vole. (David Stott.) —This

is a love-story, which has, one might say, for its chief raison d'ttre a description of life in Rome, a scene where Miss Severne naturally finds herself at home. The story has little or nothing in it to distinguish it from hundreds of the same kind that have been told before. It is not, indeed, equal to what might have been expected from an earlier effort of the author. Still, it is well told, and it is wholesome.