3 DECEMBER 1892, Page 13

The Philosopher's Window, and other Stories. By Lady Lindsay. (A.

and C. Black.)—Lady Lindsay chooses, for the most part, a minor key. Her women, too, seem sometimes a little unreasonable. Perhaps, a cynic might say, they are not the less natural for that. Why, we venture to ask, did not Fanny marry Lord Heriot ? We must own that we are better pleased when we hear a cheerful note, and when the heroine, as in "Mrs. Toovey's Red Book "— the best tale, we think, in the collection—does not set herself resolutely against a happy ending.