The Pursuit of a Phantom. By E. Everett-Green. (R.T.S. 2s.
6d.)—The " Phantom " is pleasure, and the pursuers are people of fashion, or those who desire to be considered such. They hunt, and have theatricals, and above all play bridge, and that for heavy stakes. This last indictment is, we know, only too true ; yet a young girl would hardly say to a friend, pointing to one of the tables : "They are most of them pretty sort of duffers at your, table. You'll make your pile out of them." Miss Everett-Green has caught the dialect of the society which she describes with great success, Her story is full of incident vigorously told, and has 801120 character-drawing of considerable skill. We are doubtful whether it will fall into the hands of the people who stand most in need of its counsels and warnings ; but then this is a very common difficulty on which it would be absurd to
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