2 OCTOBER 1897, Page 26

The Way of Marriage. By Violet Hunt. (Chapman and Hall.)

—Miss Hunt pictures various situations of difficulty which people make for themselves or which are made for them. A girl finds out on the eve of her marriage that her bridegroom " has a past." Another who has been made the slave of her family asserts her own claim to happiness. A woman who has sent away a younger lover is disappointed to find how soon he consoles himself. The dialogue is lively and natural. Nor is there anything to which one need object, though we must own to not having felt very keenly interested in the book.