The Golden Shoe. By Justin Huntley McCarthy. (Hodder and Stoughton.
8s. 6d. net.)—Cynthia Moon and Clarence March, two lonely girls in London, decide to adopt each other's names, for reasons which the reader must discover for himself. The real Clarence dies, and the counterfeit Clarence inherits her friend's formerly alienated grandfather, her fortune, and eventu. ally the hand of the real heir. The villain, the proprietor of a great London shoe shop, appears and disappears appropriately. There is nothing very original about all this. But the delightful account of Brown Square, Westminster, in the sixth chapter, the many scenes between the two girls—notably the meeting in the graveyard—the story of the large-hearted Mr. Bonnett's ill-fated romance, all have a flavour about them which betrays in the author a very generous endowment of " that imponderable
superfluity, grace," which, together with a certain quaint charm, is here seen masquerading most pleasantly as some greater thing,
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