FAIRYHOOD. By Clare Scarlett. (Stanley Paul.
7s. 6d.)—" Fairyhood," so we gather from the author, is a state of mind or spirit, a "natural partnership with the spirit of mercy and beauty militant here on earth . . . . a share in whose tragedy and victory is the birthright of the visionary." Miss Scarlett's heroine, Rosalie Maitland, pos- sessed a large proportion of this uncomfortable quality, and it made life very difficult for her—not unnaturally. At the age of seventeen she took a grubby teddy bear to bed with her, she quarrelled with her relations in order to read poetry with a sentimentalizing uncle, she became an actress, she married a ne'er-do-well actor. Frankly, it is difficult to sympathize with such a provoking person as Rosalie, and only those whr are themselves possessors of the artistic temperament—" Fairy. hood," or what not—will enjoy Miss Scarlett's luxurious sentimentality.
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