1 NOVEMBER 1890, Page 45

Only a Fisher - Maiden. By A. MacKnight. (Digby and Long.)— This

is one more attempt to tell the story of love, the love-story of a Lord and a fisher-maiden, and the impossibility of their mutual happiness. It is somewhat ideally treated, and the lover abruptly leaves before explaining this impediment to the heroine, and the tale, which has a certain pathos about it, presents an exception to the general run of such stories. The character of the Lord, who, if a scoundrel—for he breaks the maiden's heart— is yet not the worst kind of scoundrel, and his struggle between love and the prejudices of rank and conventionality, make a good contrast to the whole-hearted and simple fisher-maiden.