5 DECEMBER 1908, Page 9

Cousin Sara. By Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). (Mated° and Son.

6s.)—There is much that is admirable in the character- drawing of Lady Gilbert's tale, though there is sometimes to be seen in it the weakness of exaggeration. Harvey Durrant is a somewhat conventional villain, with misdoings of a melodramatic kind. The imposture in the matter of the invention seems to us highly improbable. Inventors suffer, are even robbed, but it is not in this way. On the other hand, Sara, the heroine, is an excellent creation, and old Nurse Canavan still better. The story itself is full of interest, with a very wholesome moral,—let every man believe in his own conception of life, but still remember that other men have theirs, which are equally worthy of being believed in.