25 JUNE 1910, Page 23

Daisy's Aunt. By E. F. Benson. (T. Nelson and Sons.

2s. net.) —This is the story of an outrageous experiment tried by " Daisy's Aunt," who is fairly young and extremely beautiful, in order to prevent Daisy from contracting a marriage with a man who has made himself impossible as a husband for her, without letting the principals into the secret of what is the obstacle between them. As both Daisy and Lord Lindfield ultimately insist on being informed what was the real obstacle, it seems to the reader as if it would have been better to tell them the truth in the first instance; but then, of course, Mr. Benson would have had no plot for his novel. The story is a little thin, but it is pleasantly written.