15 JUNE 1895, Page 22

Maids in a Market - Garden. By Clo Graves. (W. H. Allen

and Co.)—This is a story, of the extravaganza kind, of how certain ladies combined to " run " a market-garden in Cornwall ; how they agreed to exclude all male mankind from their company, and how signally this resolution failed. It is sometimes. but not in-

variably, amusing. There is a touch of tragedy in the farce, and this seems to us better done. The good things in the book are not very thickly scattered, but they are there. "Woman advances, step by step, along the road of centuries towards a glorious apotheosis. Nothing in heaven or on earth will stop her progress along that road unless she meets a bull upon it, or a blackbeetle."