11 JULY 1903, Page 22

Mrs. Pendleton's Four - in - Hand. By Gertrude Atherton. (Mac- millan and Co.

2s. net.)—This is a most amusing little story of what we may call the " genteel farce" kind. Mrs. Pendleton, who has been a pronounced flirt in her married life, becomes a widow at twenty-four, and receives simultaneous offers of marriage from four admirers. It must, she thinks, be a practical joke ; to avenge the insult she engages herself to the four. What follows our readers must find out for themselves. The complica- tions are, we think, admirably managed, and brought to a just conclusion.