11 OCTOBER 1890, Page 43

Elizabeth Gaunt. By Fanny Sophia Hollings. (Charles H. Kelly.)—In this

"Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion," Miss Hollings has made a framework for the well-known incident, the condemna- tion and barbarous execution of Elizabeth Gaunt for sheltering a fugitive from the field of Sedgmoor. This task she has performed with much skill and taste. We may particularly commend the liberality of view and width of sympathy which she shows in the comments on the men and women of the time which the course of her story suggests. She enlists the feelings of her readers, we need hardly say, on behalf of the sufferers from the bigotry of James and the brutality of Jeffreys; but she can make allowance for the other side. The story, too, is more than commonly well written.