6 AUGUST 1887, Page 25

Warring Angelo. By T. H. Penguin. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This, as

its title indicates, is a story of conflict, the subject being that which presents such an attraction to writers of flotion,—the femme inaompriss. The intention is excellent, and the execution fairly good ; but there is certainly a want of freshness about the book. The situation, in its main points, has been described we know not how many times. In itself, it is certainly not pleasing ; we doubt, to say the least, whether it is instructive. If the book, being fiction, has not the raison d'être, which the prologue suggests, of telling " the true story " of a friend's life, it is not easy to say what raison d'être it her.