6 DECEMBER 1884, Page 19

A Long Lane with a Turning. By Sarah Doudney. (Hodder

and Stoughton.)—This tale is constructed with no little skill. There are a good many cross-purposes in the love-making ; but it is artistically managed, and we are made to feel that everything comes right in the end, and comes right, too, in a very natural fashion. The artful Cassie is made, perhaps, a little too unscrupulous. Nemo repent. fit turpissima, if we may venture on the alteration of gender ; and this is very much what Cassie does become.