18 MARCH 1893, Page 24

This Working - Day World. By G. V. Fairfax. (Digby, Long, and

Co.)—This is the story of a lady who starts with the belief in the superiority of woman, and seeks to convert the world to her way of thinking. She goes through some disagreeable ex- periences. Her fellow-disciples are not of a kind that she admires, and at the end of the tale we find her expressing the conviction

that "man is the stronger and in most cases the nobler creation." Meanwhile, she has contrived to miss "what every woman counts her due, love, children, happiness." There is a certain interest in the story, but this is not an attractive kind of fiction.