A Book of Stories. By G. S. Street. (A. Constable
and Co. 6s.)—Most of Mr. Street's stories skim pleasantly over the surface of life, he writes of ladies and gentlemen as "one who knows," and altogether his work may generally be described as eminently soothing. There is no vulgarity, the English is good, and the reader's fancy is pleasantly titillated as he turns over the pages. There is room for " gentlemanly " stories (no other adjective would describe them so exactly) such as these, but one cannot help wishing that Mr. Street had confined him: self to the irreproachable topics treated of in "Like to Like." and had not invented the questionable plot of "Two Sorts of Life." The story is treated with discretion, but the subject is not savoury, and it does not at all suit Mr. Street's "manner" to adventure himself on to delicate ground. The book is readable to people who like their fiction drawn " rather mild."
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