Jane Austen's true lovers can never talk nor read nor
hear too much about her. She has that quality of in- exhaustibleness which belongs only to the very great. Mr. C. L. Thomson's new survey of her life and books, Jane Austen (Horace Marshall, 10s. 6d.), makes very pleasant reading. He has put together all the facts that are known about her quiet life and all those interesting " may-be's " which, considered hi the light of he work, those facti suggest. It would be difficult to imagine a more charming book for- reading aloud in a select company—more talk-provoking, more full of delightful memories. It is amusing to hear a defence put up for Mrs. Bennett and pleasant to see the tender relation between Emma and her father so cleverly emphasized. We could find it in our hearts as we read to wish that Edmund had married the fascinating but worldly Miss Crawford and that Fanny had risked her happiness' with the flirtatious brother. But enough I Space is limited, be the subject never so tempting.
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