The Anarchist. By H. Savage. (Routledge.)—This story by the author
of "My Official Wife," is a highly sensational story of the transpontine character, which has Anarchism as its back- ground. It describes the woes and adventures of Evelyn Hartly, a beautiful American heiress, whom Carl Stein, a brilliant German, courts both for her own sake and for her wealth, which will help the cause of Anarchy. The story covers a good deal of ground,—begins in America, wanders all over Europe, and ends up again in the United States, A fin de siecle Admiral, an adventurous Peer, whose hobby is exploration and mountaineer- ing, a courteous American Colonel, who ultimately marries the heroine, revolutionaries and adventurers innumerable, all crowd through the pages of this well-filled book. The story is of some interest and is fairly well sustained. But the style beggars description 1 It is stilted and melodramatic to an almost ludicrous extent, and the pages teem with pompous truisms, carefully italicised and reiterated. All the same, it is doubtless a book that will sell and find readers.
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