The Happy Highways. By Ste m Jameson. (Heinem nn. 9s.
net.)—The highways into which Miss Jameson's book leads our feet are anything but happy. She has painted with a good deal of power the restlessness, or, to use a medical term, the " general malaise" of the younger generation. The book is full of faults, with a Gothic neglect of plan and general design, but it is written with great energy and a peculiar kind of humour like that of Dostoevsky or Gorky. She is, of course, like most writers of the modern school, a good deal under Russian influence. She has a very good knack with dialogue, nd the long meta- physical, social, and ethical discussions in which the group of students with whose doings the book is concerned endlessly engage are interesting and well rendered. So you may hear the talk flowing on wherever two or three undergraduates are gathered together. The account of a sort of school which the students set up for working men in Hammersmith is very good indeed, as is also the description of a journalistic couple who are wire- pullers of the LL.P. and live in the utmost disorder and dis- comfort in a northern suburb. Altogether the book represents very truly one—and a large—group of the younger intelligentsia.
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