A Type - writing Girl. By Olive Rayner. (C. Arthur Pearson.) This
is a clever, it is not too much to say a brilliant, story. The heroine finds herself compelled to earn her own living and sees no way so ready as type-writing. Her first experience is unlucky, so unfavourable indeed that she takes refuge in an Anarchist settlement which seeks to stand aloof from the tyranny of society, supporting itself by " intensive cultivation" of the soil. The Anarchists are far too tyrannical for their new inmate, seeking more "fraternity" than she is willing to concede. This drives her back to type-writing. Her second venture is only too for- tunate. But we must not anticipate Miss Rayner's plot any more. It must suffice to say that she has given us a capital tale, readable in itself and greatly commended by the manner of the telling. The heroine, we may venture to remark, made a slight error when she answered the question, "How many words a minute ? " with one hundred and ninety-seven. That is considerably more than double the record, if our memory does not fail us. Forty is a fair number for the pen, and the type-writer about doubles it.
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