4 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 20

Elione ; or, Light in Darkness. By C. M. Smith.

(Murray and Co.)— A pretty story, which seems to be derived from a German source, or at least prompted by considerable familiarity with German literature. The immense wickedness of running away with a lover to whom the bold Baron Papa objects as being a member of a family with which he is at feud is not fully appreciated by English maidens, and there is a vague pathos about the sentiment and an admixture of the supernatural that is essentially German. Nevertheless the merit of the story is decidedly above the average.