28 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 24

The Viscountess Norrnanhurst. By Edward H. Cooper. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—This

book, as coming from the author of " Wye- marke's Mothcr," is a great disappointment. To speak frankly, it does not seem to be written for the same sort of people. The whole atmosphere is different. The Viscountess is a person whom it would be necessary to describe in Latin ; her daughter is a precocious and unhealthy young person; the hero is as ill

provided with common-sense as a young man well could be. Of course, there are plenty of proofs that Mr. Cooper knows how to write, and much that may be read with pleasure. But we finish the book with the feeling that we have been taking in something not quite wholesome.