Lovey - lifory. By Alice Hegan Rice. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—We hope
that our readers have not forgotten "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." Here she is again, as broad-minded and large - hearted as ever, with the happy faculty of making emergencies into opportunities. She has a great share in the development of Lovey-Mary, who rises from being an "item" in a "home" to a capable young woman with friends among poor and rich, a young man in a red necktie among them, and what may be generally called a future. For she, too, is equal to emergencies, as when she saves Mrs. Redding's baby from immi- nent suffocation by the simple expedient of shaking him. Her modesty is equal to her promptitude, for she explains that she "learned on Tommy." "He swallered a penny once that we was going to buy candy with. I didn't have another, so I had to shake it out." She is equal to greater things also, witness her dealing with Tommy's unhappy mother. Here, for once at least, is a sequel that is not a failure.
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