of -The Yoke serves Mr." Hubert So much of the fascination of this Wales with a protext for roplyin, REVAL, very bright little story depends upon its preface to those " prejudiced critics" surprising mystery that it would be fair by whom "work which has cost years From Our Own Correspondent. neither to author nor to reader to give of thought and months of effort any hint of the plot, nor even to glance was flagrantly misrepresented," on its Reval, June 11, at the moral question on which it turns, original publication. To do him So much docs the first half of the book justice Mr. Hubert Wales may be appear like a prologue and so cleverly From a spectacular point of view, acquitted of any nasty intent, but it are the mysteries covered up that the meeting of the Tsar and the King. strikes one as an unspeakable pity that Emperor at Reval owes more of its it is almost a shock to find so much time and effort should have been success to nature and leas to art than is oneself suddenly in the toils of the devoted to such an end. No one can generally the case in events of this kind. inexplicable. Perhaps the long arm of be blind to the terrible nature of the coincidence is used a little too lengthily First of all the weather was superb all evil against which Mr. Hubert Wales for the reader's credulity, but there is a along—sunlight, a cloudless sky, crusades, but the remedy which he bracing atuiosphere and not a breath of great deal of amusing writing for which would appear to suggest, sincerely, he should be ready to forgive a little wind to ripple the surface of the sea, on though we must think pervertedly, if whose calmness the success of the Immechanistn in the movements of the: carried to its logical conclusions," is characters. The Wild Widow herself perial banquets and ceremonial visits surely wore terrible still, As exemmuch depended. fi
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