The Highway of Fate. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (Macmillan and
Co. 6s )—Miss Carey is a popular novelist, and has deserved her popularity; but this story will hardly better her standing. She writes too easily, and she therefore writes too much. If, these five hundred pages had been cut down to three hundred, probably the public, and certainly the reviewer, would have been better pleased. The story is of the very slenderest. There is one love affair, in which "Miss Jem's" heart comes tardily into bloom, and another in which we have Eunice and Araby, Penelope and Circe, over again, laborantes in nno. Miss Carey has a practised pen ; her dialogue is easy and natural; she is from time to time shrewd, and even witty ; but life is too short and too crowded with books, not to speak of other things, to welcome such novels as The Highway of Fate.
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