The Wooing of Doris. By Mrs. J. K. Spender. (A.
D. Innes and Co.)—Mr. Brendon is a somewhat remarkable person, and not quite easy to realise. Still more remarkable and more difficult
is his son Roger. His content with the strange condition of ignorance in which his father thinks proper to leave him makes about as large a demand on the reader's faith as the writer of fiction often ventures upon. Doris, the heroine, is more natural, in our opinion, and to us at least more intelligible. Anyhow, her "wooing" makes an interesting story, which Mrs. Spender has worked out with no little skill. We notice with regret that the author has passed away since the completion of the tale.
We have received the half-yearly volumes of two magazines of which it is unnecessary to do more than mention the names, the Century and St. Nicholas (conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge). In both cases the period covered is November—April, and the
publishers are the Century Company.
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