ANNE AGAINST THE WORLD.*
A VERY entertaining story of the post-War world. The principal character, who was a V.A.D. in the War, befriends a young officer, who really belongs to a different social circle, and also tries to befriend his wife. Unfortunately, the wife has had no opportunity of rising with her husband, and a serious situation arises which is only solved by the wife running away with a vulgar rich man whom she meets when staying with Anne at her brother's country house. The plot, it will be seen, is not elaborate ; but the pictures of the London life of the professional classes after the War, and especially of the relations between • Anne Against the World. By M. Hamilton. Hurst and Blackett. [7s. 611. net.]
Anne and her mother, Mrs. Bruce, are drawn with a good deal of perception. There is nothing very modern or profound about Miss Hamilton's analysis, but the situation as seen from a Victorian point of view is ingeniously described. The melo- drama at the end is less successful, though the picture of Lily is very ably given. The author makes us sympathize with the cruelty of the lot which induces Lily, on finding her husband totally unappreciative, to throw her cap over the windmill and leave her home and child.
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