1 OCTOBER 1898, Page 24

Katharine Cromer. By Helen Craven. (A. D. Lines and Co.)

--This is a story of the " Upper Ten." A young married lady tells how her particular friend, Katharine Cromer, daughter .of the Earl of Norwich, married a singer at the opera, not an -ordinary singer, it must be understood, but a man of family. There is no special study of character or motives ; the writer has no particular purpose, ethical or social ; she gives us a brisk, one might almost say noisy, story, introduces us to a number of smart people, who talk after their kind, and of foolish middle-class people, not naturally smart, who try to imitate them. The result is fairly readable; more we cannot say.