THE LADY IN QUESTION. By George Robcy. (Nash and Grayson.
Os. net.)—Mr. Robey takes an unfair advan- tage from his own persofiality. We snigger at many of the written words of his book because the vision comes to us of how he would have said them. The crude things that are good enough for the comedian to "get across the foot- lights" stand naked and a little ashamed in print. Twins and choleric Uncle Josephs become vulgar and dull without Mr. Robey's .living personality. And yet the book is more amusing than we should have expected. Mr. Robey has observed life humorously and kindly, and he gives us his vision of it in an unpretentious way. But for the occasional passages of insight and drollery we must suffer much tedious funniness. It is really only Mr. Robey's eyebrows through the print that make us laugh. The book is composed of short stories ; in all of them Mr. Robey figures as the foolish husband, always innocently certain that everything would have been all right but for a little accident and the - unreasonableness of his wife.
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