20 JANUARY 1906, Page 20

• A Lonely Fight. BY Alice M. Diehl. (Hurst and

Blackett. 68.) —The long arm of coincidence is very long indeed in this book. The.author, however, probably intends her readers to understand that the astonishing old lady of the story knowingly engages her granddaughter as her companion ; but if this is so, Miss Diehl has not succeeded in making the figure of Lady Mount-Stuart convincing. The book, though it is to a certain extent read- able, seems to deal in the main with people who live in the world usually depicted in the Family Herald, and not on this everyday earth.