Cuddy Yarborough's Daughter. By Una L. Silberrad_ (Constable and Co.
6s.)—Miss Silberrad may have intended at first to write a novel which should have for its chief interest the career of Violet, daughter to Cuthbert 'Yarborough, but she has not followed out her original plan, for Violet is certainly dull and lacking in initiative; she has given us instead a delightful account of quite another person—Maud, cousin and quasi-sister of the said Cuthbert. Maud, if not admirable, is at least one of the most lovable women we have met for a long while, with her vivid, passing enthusiasms, her brilliancy, her "following" of adoring young men ; moreover, she represents a type. We each have our Annt Maud, and wonder, as Violet did, whether we are just a little jealous of her, and are inclined to resent the fact that "The incense that is mine by right
They burn before her shrine; And that's because I'm seventeen And she is forty-nine."
Very seldom does Maud Lassiter fail to be true and consistent, for Miss SilbeiTad has spent both care and talent on the drawing of her character we only wish that she would spend an equal care in hunting down the wily and split. infinitive.
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