11 JANUARY 1902, Page 24

The Proving of Priscilla. By Louie Bennett. (Harper and Brothers.

6s.)—Slightly crude, but exceedingly clever and arresting, is Miss Bennett's story of Priscilla, the charming maiden of Puritan ideals who marries a man of the world, and runs her head against all the stone walls of society. Her want of tact brings disaster. But her good intention, and the better mind underlying her husband's "ways of the world," aided by experience and the counsels of a faithful friend (who is also a lover), work reconciliation. And the story ends happily.