29 OCTOBER 1892, Page 24

Seven Times in the Fire. By C. Maud Battersby. (Religious

Tract Society.)—A somewhat gloomy "story of France in Revolu- tion Times." There is a quite sufficient store of horrors collected here for the reader, and, though the darkness is relieved by the happiness that ultimately comes to the heroine, the story is scarcely pleasant reading. Still, there is some power about it, and Miss Battersby gives proof of having carefully studied her subject.