In the Wars of the Roses. By E. Everett-Green. (T.
Nelson and Sons.)—Miss Everett-Green has laid the scenes of this story in the closing years of Henry VI.'s reign. the hero is for some time the companion of the unfortunate Prince Edward. The beginning seems to us a trifle affected, but the story, as it unfolds itself after the " Prologue," is well written and distinctly realistic. The life in Epping Forest at the old farm-house is particularly good, and the characters of the Devenish family are very lifelike. There is adventure, and fighting too, and we have Tewkesbury and the murder of Prince Edward, though the author has not expanded history, but simply related the facts. It is history which cannot be remoulded much, and naturally forbids a happy ending. The real interest of the story ceases with the murder of Edward, but this certain and tragic ending does not depreciate so much as might be expected the interest of the story. Miss Everett- Green achieves a very fair success, but it is in contemporary children, and not in the young people of long ago, that we see her art best displayed.
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