Brodie and the Deep Sett. By I. A. R. Wylie.
(Mills and Boon. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Wylie's latest novel is concerned with the development of the character of a grocer's son who becomes an officer. lie has contracted a secret marriage with a girl of good family, and the author gives an interesting and original account of the wife's difficulty and misery while trying to accommodate herself to her new environment. The final reconciliation of husband and wife through the husband's endeavour to settle labour troubles is, however, not quite con- vincing. The writer obviously has fine but vague ideals at the back of her mind for the improvement of the life of the workers, hut she does not quite succeed in imparting them to the reader. READABLE NOVEIS.—My Masters. By Reginald E. Salwey. (Heath Cranton. Os. net.)—An account of the adventures of a man servant who appears to have been a stormy petrel in his various places. Had a record of the disagreeable straits in which his various masters found themselves been entered on his references he might have had some difficulty in finding a situation.—Laughter Street, London. By Mary Openshaw. (Collins. 6s. net.)—A very pretty little story concerned with the contrast of life in London between the very rich and gentlefolks of very moderate incomes. The hero makes a point of union between these two strata of society, but apparently swallows his opinions when he inherits his father's wealth.—An Adopted Husband. By Futabatei. Translated by B. Mitsiu and Gregg M. Sinclair. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—A Japanese novel. The account of domestic life in Japan will be interesting to the English reader.
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