21 MAY 1927, Page 27

THE BEST STORIES OF MARY E. WILKINS. (Harper. 7s. 6d.)—To

the younger generation of readers the name of Miss Wilkins may be unfamiliar. She is an American writer, whose stories in Harper's were, we are told, part of the natural order of things" in the 'nineties. This pleasantly printed and very cheap volume, containing- twenty-five' Of her tales, should find a wide welcome among readers who are not too sophisticated to rejoice in the "eternal simplicities." There is a delightfully old-world flavour in these tranquil, picturesque, warm-hearted stories of domestic life in New England.