Mistress Branigan. By Jules Verne. (Sampson Low and Co )—
M. Jules Verne's heroine is the wife of a sea-captain, and plays the part of a L udy Franklin. She resolutely refuses to believe in her husband's death, anl, happier than her prototype, succeeds in finding him after the search of many years. The tale is interesting, as all that M Jules Verne writes must be ; but it is somewhat overloaded with geographical detail. One ought to read it with one of the newest atlases by his side, an effort to which few, we imagine, are equ el. The narrative is worked out in the logical way which is characteristic of our author, and we are ready to concede, when the end comes, that, surprising as it is it is only what one might have expected. There is, of course, a villain in the story, who is bent on securing the hercine's inheritance, and, equally of course, a comic Englishman, who is ever wandering over the world to complete his collection (of hats or heal coverings, and is brooght by his strange quest to do good service to Mistress Branigan in the work of her life.
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