The Criton Hunt Mystery. By Mrs. Robert Jocelyn. 3 vols.
(Hurst and Blackett.)—The "mystery" is, happily, nothing very awful. Two wealthy young ladies think that they should like to be wooed, if they are to be wooed, for the sake of themselves, not of their money. Accordingly, they disguise themselves as young people of moderate means. The disguise is very indifferent, for it must have been obvious to any one that they had a good deal more money than they gave out. And the place, too, was eminently absurd, for they take a hunting-box in the country hunted by their own cousin. Notwithstanding these absurdities, Mrs. R. Jocelyn has made a sufficiently readable story out of her subject. It is very trifling, indeed, but this presumably suits the readers for whom it is meant. Still, one cannot help thinking of another young woman in fiction who disguised herself and her fortune, but for a very different object. The Criton Hunt Mystery shows but very poorly alongside of "All Sorts and Conditions of Men."
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