Antonio. By Ernest Oldmeadow. (Grant Richards. 6s.)— This is a
very interesting story which deals with Portugal in the "thirties" of the nineteenth century. Tho hero is a monk, who on the morrow of his profession suffers, with his fellow-monks, expulsion from his monastery. The character of Antonio is extremely well drawn, and the reader will be deeply concerned to know whether or not ho will yield to his love for the heroine, Isabel Kaye-Templeman. There is not a word of the novel, though it is long, which the reader will wish to have omitted until the beginning of Book VI. The accounts given us in this book of Antonio's financial dilficulties are rather tedious and a little confused. The end, however, if not quite convincing, is at any rate interesting. Tho book is written from a frankly Roman Catholic standpoint, and the sidelights on tho English Church of that day are anything but flattering.
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