Under the Lash. By Mrs. Houston. (F. V. White $ Co.)
The plot of this novel has no very great claims to originality, nor is its strength of that character which has much boldness of purpose to boast of. But in place of this the author supplies considerable amount of dash to make up for the deficiency. Philippa Donner is the daughter of an English gentleman and a Greek lady, but the reputation of the latter is somewhat smudged. The heroins we need hardly say is beautiful, but, unhappily for those connected with her, inherits all the bad elements possessed by her mother. Philippa marries Harvey Latour, a man with a high sense of honour, who believes his wife to be all his fancy paints her, but, once the honeymoon over, he soon finds the quality of the woman in whose power he has placed his good name. She sneers at his admonitions and outrages his ideas of propriety, until at last the bond is broken by the lady eloping with an officer noted for his liaisons. Around such incidents as these has Mrs. Houston woven her story, and considering the slight peg she has given herself to hang such flimsy materials upon, she has done her work marvellously well. This lady is particularly fond of depicting society, men and women of the upper ten, and if she is rather prone to expose the seamy side of human nature, still it may be said her writings point a moral. Her pictures are drawn with boldness, and there is a breadth of colour that only just escapes the charge of coarseness, but skilfully she avoids the danger, and lands herself on firm ground. She evades traps that less experienced hands would fall into, and cleverly turns everything to the best advantage. The genial description of Irish scenery, abounding with light and shade, will alone considerably increase the auther's reputation.
Under the Lash. By Mrs. Houston. (F. V. White $ Co.)
A Tax on Matrimony
A Regular Pickle
Table of Contents
Miracles of healing - Christian Miracles or Healing
History of Russia: Christian Versus Barbarian
History of Japan: Early Christian Martyrs
The Jesus of History
The Assyrian Origin of Devil Worshippers
The Christ Of Dogma
The early history of Constantinople
