The Track of the Storm. By Dora Rustell. 3 vols.
(Hurst and Blackett)—Miss Dora Russell's latest novel is not behind her previous work in the qualities of readableness and interest. Some of her materials are tolerably familiar; others are fresh ; and the old and the new are mixed together with a good deal of skill. The heroine, supposing that her lover has been lost at sea, is persuaded to marry Sir William Harley, who is more than double her age, and a most unattractive person to boot. Of course, the lost lover returns, and after a good deal of ingeniously devised uncomfortableness, the death of Sir William provides an oppor- tunity for the union of the youthful pair. His decease, save as a means of getting rid of a very disagreeable character, is, how- ever, unnecessary, it having been discovered that, at the time he married Lucy King, Sir William had a wife living, and his end is hastened by the exposure of his crime. The Track of the Storm is a good story of its kind, though that kind is not the highest.
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