10 OCTOBER 1896, Page 37

The History cf Geoffrey Kings. By W. Carlton Dawe. (Ward

and Downey.)—This is a tale of a kind now somewhat old- fashioned, but not an unpleasant variety in these days when analysis and the psychological study are so frequent. The hero is dispossessed of his inheritance by an abominable fraud ; he under- goes various experiences, joining a travelling company, trying to make a livelihood by dramatic writing, &c. How the story ends

it would be unfair to say. But the reader may be satisfied that the villains are paid to the uttermost. They always are in a story of this kind, and, on the whole, we prefer it to the other kind of thing.