24 FEBRUARY 1894, Page 24

Juliet's Lovers. By Mabel Collins. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey).

—It is hardly necessary to say anything about this novel, save that it tells an exceedingly unpleasant, story in very indifferent English. The masculine characters, with one exception, are Profligate scamps, and the moral sensibilities of the heroine seem to us very much less acute than Miss Mabel Collins evidently imagines them. Of course the work of various contemporary French novelists suffices to prove that disagreeable themes may be treated with remarkable artistic skill, but we can discover no- excellence of any kind in Juliet's Lovers. It is just as deficient in charm of style as in attractiveness of substance.