20 JUNE 1896, Page 25

You Never Know Your Luck. By Theo. Irving. (Remington and

Co.)—Mrs. Irving propounds views, it may be dramatically, as to the expediency of increasing facilities for divorce, and she sends off one couple of lovers " with no words said over them by a priest." However, this erring pair are glad to get married When the chance comes. Various other pairs are duly united; and the tale is far above the average, at least the present average, in its number of weddings. Mrs. Irving must therefore be taken as, on the whole, an advocate for the institution. The story has some merit. Archer's affection for the miserable Buffie is effect- ing, and there is some humour in the attempts of the very feminine little Rosa Ditcham to ape the male.