Masterful Wilhelmine. By Julius Stinde. Presented by E. V. Lucas.
(Methuen. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. E. V. Lucas has made a most charming and convincing story out of four Victorian German novels, the earliest of which in its English translation was called The Buchholz Family. The book gives a complete picture of the German middle-class society of that day, but as it is seen through the eyes of Frau Buch- holz, a thoroughly disgruntled and discontented woman, the environment presented is not specially agreeable. The reader ,will, however, find himself taking more and more interest in the details of the family fortunes, and in the end his vexation at not being given the precise details of the original quarrel between Frau Buchholz and Frau Bergfeldt wilt become acute. This, of course, is a great compliment to the record, the only fault of which is that, although it runs to nearly two hundred and fifty pages, it is even now perhaps a little too much condensed. The whole effect, however, is exceedingly entertaining.
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