3 OCTOBER 1903, Page 39

A Passage Perilous. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (Macmillan and Co.

6s.)—" Dramatic" is no word to apply to the writings of Miss Carey. However exciting are the circumstances in which her characters find themselves, they may always be relied upon to take a very ladylike view of them. The minds of men and women alike move on these placid lines, and to people who are weary of the Sturm and Drang of most modern fiction Miss Carey's peaceful pages will be a welcome relief. They really are not more unlike life than are the strenuous novels, and the readers' feelings are much less harrowed.