Mr. Fisher Unwin has added to his First Novel Library
a sentimental account of the reactions of a young married girl. it claw not go particularly deep, but it is romantic and pleasant. The heroine begins life as the child of an artist living on Boar's Hill : a spot for which Miss Oilman evidently cherishes a romantic affection, in the expression of which she does not stint herself. A victim of love at first sight, she marries a Philistine. They drift apart, and Claire gets into doubtful company, of whom the authoress strongly dis- approves—the Blackwell poets, in fact. But her natural sentimentalism preserves her from any real contamination by them. She leaves her husband and goes to Paris. How it all comes about it is not for a reviewer to reveal : but in the end everything is roses round the door. Miss Canaan is genuinely romantic and humorous and does not, like so many first novelists, mar her work by an over-obtrusive intelligence.
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