Weeds. By Olave M. Potter and Douglas Sladen. (Hurst and
Blackett 6'0—The moral of Miss Potter's and Mr. Sladen's book is the importance of technical or business train- ing for all women who will have to earn their own livelihood. It might have been thought that this was a lesson which had been already sufficiently preached, but experience shows that there are still many girls who have received a fair education and have been brought up in a certain amount of luxury who are suddenly thrown on their own resources. This novel tells the story of three such girls, the heroine, Lesley Brydges, and two friends. Lesley's career is the most detailed and, there- fore, the most interesting, but the reader may find it hard to credit her sudden discovery that she has all her life been unconsciously in love with a friend of her extreme youth. It is hard also to swallow what Thackeray would have called the "cast" of the evening party given by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Aylmer. It M, to say the least of it, improbable that all the lions who are named in the course of a long paragraph should have appeared in one evening and roared in concert.
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