11 JUNE 1910, Page 28

The Luck of the Black Cat. By Elizabeth Banks. (George

Allen and Sons. 5s.)—Miss Banks is better as a writer of short stories than as a novelist, and in one, at any rate, of these sketches, "Ma's Vacation," she contrives to entertain her readers very greatly. The other stories are amusing ; but the picture of "Ma," the wife of a Connecticut farmer, and her peculiar ideas of a holiday, is very delightfully drawn.