6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 13

Rollica Reed. By Eliza Kerr. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This does

not seem to us a very likely story. Rollica is too good; Kate Hamilton, who is the black foil to her white, is too bad, and so is her mother. Surely two people could never have been so con- sistently odious. As the greatest blockheads sometimes " deviate into sense," the most disagreeable people have sometimes moods in which they are not actually offensive. Miss Kerr must learn to put a little shading into her pictures.