4 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 28

QUEEN ANNE FARTHINGS. . By -Catharine I. Dodd. (Jarrolds. 7s.

6d.)—Queen Anne Farthings, we are told, was written in response to, the requests of many readers, who wished for a continuation of The Farthing Spinster. Unlike most sequels, this one fully justifies its existence. It might be called " a pretty book," for it is full Of pretty girls,- pretty names, and pretty words ; also, however, it- is an excellent story. The author has the eighteenth-century. touch : she introduces us to a Piccadilly where " there be pretty bugloss in the dry ditches," and tells us of Jellis.Farthing, the daughter of one of Queen Amie'S Ladies in Waiting, who inherited witch-blood "iand 'a curse, and had unfOrtunate love affair: -