The Secret of Berry Pomeroy. By Fred Whishaw. (Griffith, Ferran,
Browne, and Co. 35. 6d.)—Mr. Whishaw is always able to tell a story well, but he has not this time, we think, got a subject that suits him particularly. The "Lion's Cub" of last year was more of a success. He gives us, we need hardly say, a brisk, stirring tale; but it has not the substance, so to speak, in it which we have got into the way of expecting from him. Is Mr. Whishaw quite fair to the Young Pretender ? We have no sympathy with the silly sentiment which would make him out perfect ; but surely he was not given in his early days to "a life of dissipation and extravagance, gambling and drinking all the day and most of the night." These bad habits grew upon him in the days when his hopes were blighted; but before the '46—the words quoted are used of him at that time—he had not fallen so low.
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