20 FEBRUARY 1904, Page 22

Free, Not Bound. By Katrina Trask. (G. r. Putnam's Sons.

6s.)—There is something distinctly fine about this story, though some of the situations are a little difficult to mansze, and we are not sure that the author is always quite successful. David Dear- ford and Elizabeth Harcott make a love match, and then there come things between them. It is the time of the War of American Independence, and David is of Puritan stock, deacon in a very rigidly dogmatic Independent church. Mrs. Trask tells how the two are divided and how they are united, with no little force, giving us by the way some clear pictures of men and events.