18 JANUARY 1902, Page 21

The Countess of Haybury. By W. B. Maxwell. (Downey and

Co. Gs.)--Ludy Maybury was a garrulous per,on and held forth in monologue to an intimate: frii ad, who must have got as tired as the reader of the not very witty or wise views of things in general, and her children in particular, given forth by Mr. Maxwell as the reporter of her Ladyship's words. Some of these skits on society were first published in the World, and perhaps when presented in instalments they may have proved more acceptable than in their collected and continuous form.