The Three Sisters. By May Sinclair. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Miss
Sinclair's book is as clever as can be. She -writes well, and has a fluent mastery of her emotion and expression ; and she has emphasized delicately and distinctly the differences in character of the three sisters, Mary, Gwenda, and Alice, who, daughters of a tyrannous old country parson, lavished their love, or what to them seemed love, on the young doctor of Morfe. The novel is, in any case, grim and depressing; it would be tragical if its psychology were true to that of the majority of women. But Miss Sinclair looks at life from a point of view that can only be called morbid, since it is so distrustful of human nature that it ceases to be just.
READABIM NovEl.s.—The Dice of Love. By Edmund Bosanquet. (John Long. 6s.)—An obvious, amusing story of a county family, with one incongruously farcical episode.— The rise of Jennie Cushing. By Mary S. Watts. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Watts follows, as usual, the school of do Morgan. Her book is full of individual interest, and a great advance on her earlier work.—The Story of Duciehurst. By Charles Egbert Craddock. (Same publishers and price.)—This novel is slow and difficult, but, as might be expected front the reputation of the writer, original in subject, and well written.
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