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LITERATURE.

Land at Last. A Novel, in Three Books. By
Edmund Yates, author of " Broken to Harness."

Three Vols. Chapman and Hall.

Few readers who enter on the perusal of Mr.
Yates' very enthralling romance will be willing to
lay it aside until, with the hero, they are safely
landed in port at the close of the third volume.
The " breakers ahead" which beset Geoffrey Lud-
low on the very outset of his adventurous voyage,
are assuredly matter of no marvel, for never did
Quixotic squire of dames hazard a more perillous or
imprudent undertaking. The first book commences
"in the streets," and there, dying of starvation on a
door-step, the rising artist Geoffrey Ludlow, who has
just unexpectedly sold his picture, finds—the heroine.
He rescues her from death, and enacts again the
fable of the man who warmed the frozen serpent in
his bosom. Margaret Dacre, with her violet eyes
and her red-gold hair, is another Lamia. If in
former times poets and romancists were justly
accused as the flatterers of beauty, in our
day they are assuredly having their revenge. When
Crebillon was accused of selecting terrible subjects
for his dramas, he is said to have exclaimed, " What
could I do—Corneille has taken possession of the
heavens and Moliere of the earth ; nothing was
left me but the infernal regions, and I have plunged
into them." And so it is (apparently) with modern
fictions. The race of all-perfect, angelic heroines
is exhausted, and the Brinvilliers and the Borgia of
history are become the ordinary heroines of every-
day life! The other day in the " Clyffards of
Clyffe" we made acquaintance with a golden-haired
incarnation of treachery and crime. Yesterday in
Mark Lemon's " Falkner Lyle " we shuddered over
the revengeful outbursts of Bertha Clare. To-day in
Mr. Yates' enthralling history we meet with another
of course beautiful and bewitching, but (still more)
of course false and heartless, heroine. We will not
spoil the interest of a very cleverly constructed plot
by revealing in what the lady's iniquity consists.
" Land at Last" may claim the merit of being one of
the most interesting books of the class that have
recently appeared. A group of very well-drawn
characters occupy the scene, and each performs his
part with success. The hero is an artist, and Ws'
make some pleasant acquaintances among " the
Brethren of the Brush." Foremost among them are
good-natured, practical Charley Potts and William
Bowker, who is in the habit of speaking of himself
at once familiarly and affectionately as " Your
William." Here is your -William's happy criticism
on Charley's painting :