NEW NOVELS AT THE LIBRARIES. WOMAN'S A RIDDLE; or, Baby Warmstrey. By PHILIP SHELDON, Author of "When George III. was King.' 3 vols. Crown 8vo. "An interesting tale. In the delineation of idiosyncrasies, special and particular, and its effects on the lives of the personages of the story, the author may, without exaggeration, be said to be masterly. Whether in the long drawn out development of character in the every-day life of the persons of the drama, or in the description of peculiar qualities in a single pointed sentence, he is equally skilful; while, where pathos is necessary, he has it at command, and subdued, sly humour is not wanting."-Morning Post. "The novel is one of great power. The conversations are very clever. The scene at the Baronet's death is a triumph of word painting. It is not a novel which can be skipped, and bears witness to the author's fertility of invention and power of working out, in the minutest details, a very original plot."-John Bull. Thoroughly interesting, and written with considerable power. Its characters, moreover, are life-like, and its story is worth telling. Katherine and Sir Gervase are both described very distinctly. Those who read the entire novel will not be disappointed."-Sunday Times. LISETTE'S VENTURE. By Mrs. RUSSELL Gray. 2 vols. THE HIGH MILLS. By KATHERINE SAUNDERS, Author of "Gideon's Rock," etc. AILEEN FERRERS. Crown 8vo. 3 vols. Crown 8vo. By SUSAN MORLEY. 2 vols. "Her novel rises to a level far above that which cultivated women with a facile pen ordinarily attain when they set themselves to write a story. Its grammar is faultless, its style is pure, flowing, terse, and correct, there is not a line of fine writing from beginning to end, and there is a total absence of anything like moralising or the introduction of pretty ineffectual sermons. It is as a study of character, worked out in a manner that is free from almost all the usual faults of lady writers, that Aileen Ferrers' merits a place apart from its innumerable rivals."-Saturday Review. HENRY S. KING & Co. |