2 JANUARY 1926, Page 33

The Cobweb. By Margaretta Tuttle. (Hodder and •

Stoughton. Is. 6d.)—Although this story, like many which come to Us from America, is curiously pedestrian in method, there is little or no padding. Its heroine is the daughter of a literary journalist of Scottish descent, and is connected on her mother's -side with the old families of Virginia. We see the girl in many surroundings, living in a 'cheap boarding house, as mistress of her wealthy uncle's house in New York, and as inheritress of an old family estate, and always her emotions and environment are described with fullness and minuteness.