13 OCTOBER 1894, Page 38

room, and is attracted by her, and she by him

; but he is married and does not forget the fact. Such, in short, is the plot of In Due Season. But it is a good study of two naturally noble, well- balanced characters, and though worked out in oversfour hundred pages, the interest in the narrative is kept up fairly well. There is some good and painstaking work—too much of it, indeed—and the author deserves at least as much credit as the reader, for per- severing to the end. All ends correctly, as can easily be foreseen. We have a certain respect for works like this, but no enthusiasm, and our authoress must transfuse a little warm blood into her cold-blooded fiction to become readable.