12 DECEMBER 1885, Page 16

Salome ; or, "Let Patience have her Perfect Work." By

Mrs. Emma Marshall. (Nelson and Sons.)—Mrs. Marshall's hero is quite up to her best mark. Salome is a very well-drawn character ; we recognise her reality at once. Nothing could be more effective than the scenes in which the dinov.entent of the story is described. Rre- have not read anything better in its way for a long time.