(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.)

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 334, 16 January 1889, Page 4

(F ROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. )

Lonuov Novcmbci 23. Mr Kiwi k Hujoaud will only public " Colonel Quaiiteli, V.C.,' and "Cleopatra," m 1889. The fonnor euiios our, in three \olnme-> eaily in February or Maich, and fchc Inltm (lifter mnmi)^ j-eii.illy fcluough the " Illustrated Kcwrf '") will m July forn a companion >olnme to " She ' ami' Allan (Quartet mam. ' My oun iupic-.-ion i-. that, Mi HujiU'iid v\ould be wi.^r to ''iiiako hay whilst tho >sim blnnob." thcu- ,ue Dluntilul "iiu'iibllifil the itueiOL fid'ionluic :4oiie-i of the lici^^aid soi' i;- on the wane. Out oh fclm do/ou or so))iibi i.od h'nic he,i>-0M not one ha 1 - really hit i.he iuu k L,i -,fc j etac t a the now yams ot ~S\v \\ c^tiH, Mr Man die Fcnn and Mi Couch '-oil in scou- wncio ility now tell m dozens— *o, i\b ley^t, the i)ooLaclUis tell .ne. Tie liaimaid et.i.;o ill die like the Conwayt ia'f. Wlio Load v '•Called Back, ' now. lot a copy can be ceen anywhere The boa i^ji^ irreti ie\ ably dead ab Queen Anne. j Minn Mu'uel Collins i ed to be ablt, to wnte u faniy £ood nu\el but her coiucim on to "occultism, "whil in;yi(j. and i!ie e-vbiaoiuiinuy behefr. ol -Jlavat^ky, Sim ctt and Co appeals to has wrought, on her iniayinabion mow I fli^Mbtuufely. "The BKis&om and the Fiuil i^ the lanke.-^ ra\iii<^ ot an " oeeult 'Circle. At fiiM, the de.-euption of the inlotbibJy beautiful ! heroine " hanky-p'mkv \\ithhei lo\ers lather anin-es one, but >k foi lon^. The authoi is alteiuatcly ivaleiious and ineoheient.

A Life's Bicning. Since " Domob ' took ho no\ el-i ending woild by hborui, much It been expected! honi (ieoisrc Gi&siu<r, ,0 lightly." "A Life 1 * Morning " it, a hy okuor no\cl, though vvcaiifsoino in pajb, and qtufo un-f-iuted ioi serial piiblicafcsu I can undui&tand it fell flat in the Plot theie is none, and the ctni-al incident U old a-, the hill*. The ciiiu^ mtoicst, in £tiet, centres on tho in£lau'ce& o! circumstances, on the character on bijrh-mindod and intonbcly nure-hautJ girl Emily Wood, the hovoine in qucsion, is happily i beLrothed to nyou»£, ardei, ;ind fiiiv.ilion'^ Oxonian, when s| ]0 sudden, rinds hoisolt j placed in an awkwaid posnm lonjj flear to novelists. Her father hs in " n weak moment tdiipored wifch a !iO note belon«mu to his employer. Thi a »j „,h ms^ioa- | atelym 10/e wiLh Emily, md lotolw* io uwli&o i;hjf catastrophe t' the utmost. Either sh/mu«.t marry hi, or he; paiont I soes togfl Of courto 4,1* does, yon say. No ; aitdmuoh &olid reUetion Emily conchides tlft even to save lor father horn taol shejas no ri^hfc to SI J J, or body and deba&oHl 1 womanhood. >fao appeals passional 01/ for mercy, bat when this i b j denied? save on tho one condition of mariige w,th the pciiccutoi, the^iil remain Jtiim H CI - f alh(l . cons-oquently los . c ? . P J? IU .? b a»d promptly commits vuicidtf Jiiiuily meets ths men briiurinohomohcco.pe, and thju beine tho"cufrainatK horror of a cc^ 8t &U c Cumbs to blanker. On her recojery, her fiance, the jOn S Oxonian, wanfe her to "marry him T o life horror she icphes .she can mr many hi ln , and ibaL foi / a feocl . et mysUous roabon, which iho dmenotimpavUmusl bo ovor botwe>n them. Aftoi ?.^"l r?' 011 "? man bonpwfully accepts this Jdicfc and goes . JE! mi ll y V conduct, I witlfter fftthei-'s being! a thief and a • Ul ! : hi l ie Slmpl y felb OHitiL wa& utterly "npf bio to fetop into hc-jppiness over her fatl| corpbo. Mr Gia^p dovptes much s f )a|n explainmp h ei . Lrvous state of tn 6> an i d ab lasL bl " in^ s if ' P l ' cltv !ll i ?? Lto L t0 Ono - 1I(^ ftdmitß it was m( f nnL" • c lnovifc able corollary of cii1 9 ,' n . s»ch ft character. Years pafand at last hero and heroine meet,

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again, ju3t as the former is thinking of marrying somobody else. Emily explains. She has long seen that her attitude atler her illness was morbid, and repented of it ; but onlighlomnent seemed to have come too late. Of course, the happy pair are married. I am atraid this gives but a very bald idea of a book which, though not as clever a& " Demos) " or " Thyrza," is yet emphatically worth reading. By the way, Mr Arthur Pabteson, whoso capital story, " I'll Toll Thee, Dick, Where 1 Have Been," was so suceeystul thi-j timo la.sC year, contributes a short, stirring tale, " One JNight," to the Christinas double number ot tho " English Illu&tralGd Magazine," w inch ought not to be missed Mr Norri^ lms also a characleiisfcic story m thih.