15 AUGUST 1908, Page 25

Kitty Tailleur. By May Sinclair. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.)

—In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, iuduces him to propose marriage to her in ignorance of her past. The subject is familiar and painful ; but in justice to Miss May Sinclair it must be said that it is extremely well managed by her. The struggle between Kitty Tailleur, Robert Lucy, and Wilfred Marston—the man whose mistress Kitty Taillenr is—is described with extraordinary force. The tragedy of the end is piteous from its sheer inevitability.