15 AUGUST 1903, Page 24

A Girl of Ideas. By Annie Flint. (Ward, Lock, and

Co. 6s.)—This is an amusing, if rather impossible, little book. The heroine, the girl with ideas, failing to get her first novel pub- lished, opens a bureau for the sale of plots in fiction and their development to authors whose ideas have worn a little thin. ' It is needless after this exposition to say that the scene of the novel is laid on the other side of the Atlantic. The success of the plan is instantaneous, and Elinor Dale has soon a large clientele. Unfortunately, however, she on one occasion sells the same plot twice over, and fearful complications arise. The book is certainly rather slight, but it is very readable, and is pleasantly written.