7 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 24

An Unwise Virgin. By Mrs. Coulson Kernahan. (John Long. 6s.)—This

is a book about a lunatic, who in his lucid intervals engaged two doctors for himself, and disguised one (the cleverer of the two) as the family butler. The scene passes in an Abbey, which would quite have realised Catherine Morland's utmost expectations, so eerie and romantic a place is it. The book is enlivened with a murder, and is altogether the sort of story which people who are not too particular about probability will enjoy as a .change from the problem novel.