Richard Rosny. By Maxwell Gray (N. 'G. Tuttiett). (W. Heinemann.
6s.)—The author of "The Silence of Dean Maitland" does her best to hinder her readers from being optimists. No one can read the story of Richard Rosny, told as it is 'without any niserve, and continue to think that this is the best of all possible worlds. The story begins by giving him a stepfather, one of t lose "good fellows" who degenerate so speedily into everything that is bad. He is sufficiently well drawn, while Richard's mother is a really subtle study of .character, one of the women for whom we feel first admiration, then pity, then contempt. How Sweet and affectionate she is ! how she suffers ! and at last, how shallow and selfish she is through it all! We have not space' for an analysis of the story; if we haul, it would not be fair to spoil the surprise. The story is not an easy one to read ; yet it has a powerful fascination, and there are some fine passages in it,—Nancy's rescue of Evelyn is such, and such also is the conclusion.
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