30 AUGUST 1913, Page 23

The Strictly Trained Mother. By F. F. Montresor. (John Murray.

3s. 6d.)—In this book Miss Montresor returns to the mood in which she wrote "A Fish out of Water." Neither of these is a story in the strict sense of the word, both being studies of very quiet, everyday life in London. The people in " A Fish out of Water" were more attractive than those in the present volume, and to this extent The Strictly Trained Mother is not such pleasant reading as the earlier book. But Miss Montresor contrives to make the picture of the " chicken-pecked" mother both pathetic and humorous, and all her readers will rejoice when the old lady throws off her bondage and rebels against her tyrannical daughters.