6 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 13

The Beautiful Miss Brooke. By Z. Z. (Louis Zangwill). (R.

Tuck and Sons.)—The best part of this book is the outside. The cover presents us with the likeness of an undoubtedly handsome young woman. But when we go on to make her acquaintance we find that she does not improve. She is capable of being frank on occasion ; that is about her only merit. We do not deny that Mr. L. Zangwill's study is sufficiently clever, as clever, perhaps, as the picture, but it is distinctly less agreeable.