10 JULY 1909, Page 29

Galatea of the Wheatfield. By N. E. Francis. (Methuen and

Co. 6s.)—This is a perfectly delightful study of a country girl who falls in love with a gentleman. The girl innocently compromises herself in the eyes of the world, and her lover's father insists on her being removed from her surroundings and given, before her marriage takes place, a year's experience in the world in which she will henceforth have to live. It would be extremely unfair to the anther to let out the secret of her plot and tell what is the result of this experiment. But it may be said that though this result may be unexpected by the reader, it has the merit of being entirely natural. Any one who wishes to read a charming idyll of country life cannot do better than get Galatea of the Wheatfield.