Such as have Erred. By Ella MacMahon. (Hutchinson and Co.
6s.)—Miss MacMahon might well have finished the quota- tion in her title, for her unfortunate hero most distinctly is "deceived" in life. Luckily for him, the deception is practised by the person he believes to be his wife, and his freedom results from his finding her out. The story oscillates between Ireland and Italy, and the Englishman who reads it will feel that in the eyes of the author he is a most inferior being to the lucky people born on the other side of St. George's Channel. Without being remark- able, the book is quite readable. One of the characters is Sir William Curtis, British Ambassador in Rome. He is represented as a most disagreeable man, and though he is amusingly drawn, an ill-tempered Ambassador is such a paradoxical figure that it is extremely difficult to believe in him.
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