A Woman of the Commune. 13y G. A. Henty. (F.
V. White and Co.)-This is not a tale of the usual type we are accustomed to receive from Mr. Henty, but a romance, an historical romance it is true, beginning at the Siege of Paris, and concluding at the very end with the Commune. The real heroine is not the "Woman of the Commune," but an independent-minded young lady who is nurse in the American Ambulance. Mr. Henty has a trick of reserving the individual or incident which gives a title to the book till nearly the end of the narrative, a bad habit which is slightly un- fair and rather irritating to the reader. The story is readable, though the details of the sorties are not always interesting, and all the characters, some of whom are well drawn, all talk alike when they have to continue the narrative. As it is we hear more of Goncle, the art teacher, and the young men of the studio, and the hero Cuthbert, than the Commune, but it is distinctly interesting.
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