3 DECEMBER 1892, Page 13

Taken at his Word. By Walter Raymond. 2 vols. (Bentley

and Son.)—This is a somewhat strange story, and may at least lay claim to a certain amount of novelty. The hero is a claimant, so to speak, who trades on an imposture, repents of his misdoing, finds himself entangled in difficulties which seem hopeless, and finally is able to extricate himself. The reader is inclined to rebel against the improbabilities—so, at least, they seem to us— which he is required to accept; but he does not find the story hang at all heavily on his hands.