After Long Wailing. By Jessie L. Nicholson. 2 vols. (Hurst
and Blackett )—This is a novel of the old-fashioned kind, not unwelcome after the problem literature to which we have been accustomed of late, and made more agreeable outwardly by the looser printing which the two-volume shape permits. The "long waiting" is for a child that has been lost,—kidnapped out of re- venge, not a very probable incident. Found he is, after much searching and many doubts, and the finding is, as long-expected things often are, a great disappointment. This is as much as it is fair to say of Miss Nicholson's plot. There are two love-stories, both of them ending in marriage, not beginning with it, as we are now used to find, and a fair variety of incident and interest. Altogether this is a pleasantly written, well-managed story, which may be commended to all readers without hesitation.
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