4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 12

Three Girls in Mexico. By Bessie Merchant. (Blackie and Son..

3s. 6d.)—The scene is unfamiliar, and, pictured as it is with no little skill, is interesting in no common degree. Then there is a secret of making some costly perfume out of yellow orchids which one of the heroines learns from an old Indian woman whom she rescues from her tormentors; but it does not play any great part in the story. Tho fortunes of the three girls are such that we follow them without any weariness. Three happy endings to love-stories seem, we suppose, to be too much of a good thing. One, there- fore, has to be interrupted; we are consoled by finding that the hero has been an Anarchist, and even told off to throw a bomb at a Grand Duke.