6 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 24

The Prelate. By Isaac Henderson. (Ticknor, Boston, U.S.A.)—The hero of

this story is a reforming Moneignore in the Roman Church, who incurs, of course, the hatred of his superiors, and especially of the Jesuits. The heroine is a young American lady, who braves popular scandal by going alone to his apartments that she may warn him of a danger of which she has received a mysterious intimation. This part of the story is well conceived and well told, and there are some vigorous sketches of Italian scenery and manners. Bat we do not like the construction of the plot. We should have thought better of the " prelate " if he had not mingled a human passion with his spiritual hopes.