30 JANUARY 1897, Page 10

Jenny's Bawbes. By M. W. Paxton. (Downey and Co.)—This story

has been spun out to nearly four times its proper length. There is a hero, an idle medical student who turns out a capable doctor, a. heroine who goes through a number of distressing experiences, and a rascally guardian who seeks to practise hypnotism on the said heroine, she being unfortunately his ward. Something might have been made out of the story if it had been cut down into a very small volume. As it stands it is scarcely readable.