2 JUNE 1894, Page 28

Not in the Belting. By Sir Randal H. Roberts, Bart.

(F. V. White and Co.)—This is a story of a well-known type. The scene is laid in a county which it is not difficult to identify with Leicestershire. The incidents and language of the hunting-field abound. The impecunious baronet of old family, the handsome stranger with shifty eyes, the foreign adventuress, the Guards- man, the vulgar millionaire, are all people whom we have met before. Sir Randal Roberts manages them more skilfully than some who deal in this kind of fiction. His pen is well-practised, and he contrives to work out of materials which are certainly not new a novel that is yet passably fresh.