"tin Roao 70 Monruney." "By G. W.
open: Modder and Stoughion, Ts:
There is powder in the air. 1 suppose the public taste, already recovering from its satiety after four years of blood and death, really does impel this absorption of the popular novelist in men who shoot. The amount of gun work in this little batch of novels would require 12 biggish computation, A squad of "greasers" armed to the teeth, adorns Mr. Ogden's dust-cover: Mr, Cooke faces us with Jacobite Highlanders and. Cumberland's red-charge; while "Stella Nash" opens with a stomach wound and fatal hemorrhage.
Ganpat""—whom I suspect to be a lady, if only from her Stella's pervading assumption that woman has perception and man mere observation—alone of these writers pretends to the gnomic. This carries us nowhere; and disfigures what. might have been a fairly pretty descriptive style. As it is, she has given us a wearying mixture of sensational, the sentimental and the which even the glam inevitable East does not redeem: for the glamour shares in the general dilution. 0 sancta implicites! "Ganpat" "really hi some sense of humour and imilitude in dialogue, if she bhut avoid this overstrain,
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