So Runs the World Away
By . New York :Harper and Brothers.
A NOVEL of the “ Red as a Rose is She ” sort; but entirely stupid, and without any of the redeeming originality of that book, — if original sin may be considered a redeeming quality. The destroying military man rides his usual course through these pages, and breaks the heroine’s heart; the baddish, beautiful woman flirts up to the brink of ruin, and tearfully retires upon the desolation of her husband. Of course there is the wonted allowance of hunting, dining and smoking, duelling and dying; and a more thoroughly disagreeable lot of people we never saw got together, — no, not in a modern English novel by a female hand.