6 JULY 1912, Page 34

Pension Kraus. By Agnes Blundell. (Herbert and Daniel. 6s.) —It

is inevitable that a " clever daughter" should in her first book invite comparison with her "cleverer mother," and Miss Blundell's work being a little immature she must, of course, rather suffer from the comparison. Fortunately Miss Blundell does not attempt country novels, but gives us an amusing picture of life in a foreign boarding-house. There is a great deal of freshness and brightness about her writing, though the character-drawing is not subtle. The book makes pleasant reading, and the romance of the elderly Lili Braun is very prettily told.